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Species Picrocuma poecilotum Hale, 1936

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Species Picrocuma poecilotum Hale, 1936

  • Picrocuma poecilota Hale, H.M. 1936. Cumacea from a South Australian reef. Records of the South Australian Museum 5: 404-438 [415, figs 7, 8].
    Type data:
     Holotype SAMA C2006 ♀ ovigerous, Fossil Reef, Wynyard, TAS.
    Paratype(s) SAMA C2010–C2013, Sellicks Beach, Gulf St Vincent, SA.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

From sand, attracted to underwater light, intertidal to 21 m depth.

 

General References

Hale, H.M. 1943. Notes on two sand-dwelling Cumacea (Gephyrocuma and Picrocuma). Records of the South Australian Museum 7: 337-342 (behaviour)

Hale, H.M. 1945. Australian Cumacea. No. 9 The family Nannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 8: 145-218 [178] (description of male)

Tafe, D.J. & Greenwood, J.G. 1996. The Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2): 391-482 [472]