Australian Biological Resources Study

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Genus Cyclaspis Sars, 1865

  • Cyclaspis Sars, G.O. 1865. Om den aberrante Krebsdyr-gruppe Cumacea og dens nordiske arter. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1864: 128-208 [206] [as Cyclapis].
    Type species:
     Cyclaspis longicaudata Sars, 1865 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Stebbing, T.R.R. 1913. Cumacea (Sympoda). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten, Berlin 39: 1-210 [28].

 

Excluded Taxa

BODOTRIIDAE: Cyclaspis bicornis Zimmer, 1921, see Jones, N.S. 1969. The systematics and distribution of Cumacea from depths exceeding 200 meters. Galathea Report 10: 99-179 [156] (erroneously listed as Australian).

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

All oceans.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • Western Australia
  • New Zealand

Oriental Region

  • Andaman Islands

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Distribution References

  • Jones, N.S. 1969. The systematics and distribution of Cumacea from depths exceeding 200 meters. Galathea Report 10: 99-179
  • Day, J.A. 1978. Southern African Cumacea. Part 2. Family Bodotriidae, subfamily Bodotriinae. Annals of the South African Museum 75: 159-290
  • Tafe, D.J. & Greenwood, J.G. 1996. The Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2): 391-482