Species Dicoides fletti Hale, 1946

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dicoides fletti Hale, H.M. 1946. Australian Cumacea. No. 12 The family Diastylidae (Part 2). Gynodiastylis and related genera. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 357-444 [425, figs 49, 50].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C2341 ♀, Babel Island, TAS, 25 m [39°55'S 148°31'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA C2637, C2648, C2650, TAS.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, from sand, silt, mud and clay, attracted to underwater light, 0–363 m depth.

General References

Gerken, S. 2001. The Gynodiastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(1): 1-276 [27, fig. 93]

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