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Genus Alima Leach, 1817

  • Alima Leach, W.E. 1818. A general notice of the animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the expedition to explore the source of the river Zaire. 1 unnumbered plate (1817), Appendix 4 (1818). pp. 407-419 in Tuckey, J.K. (ed.). Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J.K. Tuckey, R.N., to which is added, the Journal of Professor Smith, Some general observations on the country and its inhabitants, and an Appendix: Containing the natural history of that part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. London : John Murray 498 pp. [plate] [gender feminine].
    Type species:
     Alima hyalina Leach, 1817 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic-Indo-west Pacific Oceans.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

  • Manning, R.B. 1968. A revision of the Family Squillidae (Crustacea, Stomatopoda), with the description of eight new genera. Bulletin of Marine Science 18(1): 105-142 figs 1-10