New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species

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Repository URL https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/
Node OBIS Australia
Published2025-02-14 06:22
First registered2025-02-14 06:27
Abstract

Six new species of Ampeliscidae are described: Ampelisca capella sp. nov., Ampelisca mingela sp. nov., Byblis pialba sp. nov. and Byblis wadara sp. nov. from the Great Barrier Reef; Ampelisca katoomba sp. nov. from the New South Wales shelf; and Byblis liena sp. nov. from the Queensland slope. Byblisoides esferis J. L. Barnard, 1961 is recorded from southeastern Australia, the first record of the genus in Australia. These bring the number of eastern Australian species to twenty-six.

CitationPoore, Gary C. B., and James K. Lowry. 2023. New Australian species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and eastern Australia with a key to Australian species. In Festschrift in Honour of James K. Lowry, ed. P. B. Berents, S. T. Ahyong, A. A. Myers, and L. Fanini. Records of the Australian Museum 75(4): 519–533. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
Citation ID https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License
Keywords Occurrence, Specimen
Contacts
Creator Gary Poore
Museums Victoria
Contact Gary Poore
Museums Victoria
Metadata Provider OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Publisher OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

Statistics

Occurrence records 27
Species level 27
Absence records 0
Event records 0
MoF records 1
Sequence records 0
Species 9
Taxa 9
Time range 1977 - 1986

This dataset has appeared in 305 downloads in 2025, with a total of 7,597 records.

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 3
Not marine 0
No WoRMS match 0
No coordinates 3
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 3 0
decimalLongitude 3 0
eventDate 10 0
maximumDepthInMeters 13 0
minimumDepthInMeters 13 0

Spatial issues

Records on land 7
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1

Top taxa

IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Ampelisca katoomba Poore & Lowry, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
10
Ampelisca dimboola Lowry & Poore, 1985
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4
Ampelisca euroa Lowry & Poore, 1985
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
4
Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2
Byblisoides esferis J.L. Barnard, 1961
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2
Ampelisca capella Poore & Lowry, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
2
Byblis liena Poore & Lowry, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1
Byblis pialba Poore & Lowry, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1
Byblis wadara Poore & Lowry, 2023
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1

Distribution

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Data providers

Name OceanExpert ID
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure 20942
Museums Victoria

Measurement types

measurementType measurementTypeID Records
No measurements found.

Occurrences

scientificNameeventDatedecimalLongitudedecimalLatitudecollectionCodecatalogNumber