Species Cyclaspis sheardi Hale, 1944

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclaspis sheardi Hale, H.M. 1944. Australian Cumacea. No. 7 The genus Cyclaspis. Records of the South Australian Museum 8: 63-142 [86, figs 15, 16].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C2429 ♂ adult, off Wardang Island, Spencer Gulf, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA C2430; SAMA C2432–C2436.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Attracted to underwater light, to 40 m depth.