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Genus Vaunthompsonia Bate, 1858

  • Vaunthompsonia Bate, C.S. in Kinahan, J.R. 1858. On the genus Scorpionura (J. V. Thompson MSS). Nat. Hist. Rev. 5: 202–205 [203].
    Type species:
     Vaunthompsonia cristata Bate, 1858 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Antarctic Oceans.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

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. 1975. Southern African Cumacea. Part 1. Family Bodotriidae, subfamily Vaunthompsoniinae. Annals of the South African Museum 66: 177-220