Species Tasmarcturus simplicissimus (Whitelegge, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arcturus simplicissimus Whitelegge, T. 1904. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales (1898). Crustacea. Part IV. Isopoda. Part III. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 405-416 [406] [the types are lost (Springthorpe & Lowry 1994).].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM specimens lost, off Wattamolla (as Wata Mooli), NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Poore, G.C.B. 2013. Rectarcturidae Poore, 2001 rediagnosed with descriptions of new Australian genera and species (Isopoda: Valvifera). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 70: 17–36 [33]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2025	CRUSTACEA Brünnich, 1772	04-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Gary Poore
	VALVIFERA Sars, 1882	03-Sep-2013	ADDED