Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985

Poore, Gary C. B. & Lowry, James K., 2023, New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 75 (4), pp. 519-533 : 528

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10413630
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scientific name	Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985
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Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985 View in CoL

Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985: 284 View in CoL , fig. 20.

Material examined. NMV J71732 About NMV , 1 specimen, Australia, Queensland, 1 km E of Yorke Island, Torres Strait , 09.8°S 143.4°E, 41 m (ASB-1 stn) GoogleMaps ; NMV J71733–71739 About NMV , 22 specimens, N end of Hervey Bay, off Burnett Heads , 24.5°S 152.8°E, 22–49 m (ASB-5 stns) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Australia, Queensland (9°S) to South Australia, shelf and bays, 4– 176 m.

Remarks. Ampelisca toora is immediately recognized by the saddle-like crest on urosomite 1 and the oblique posterodistal margin of the basis of pereopod 7 (slightly concave near the distal corner). The species ranges from Spencer Gulf, South Australia, to Torres Strait, Queensland (9°S). Lowry & Poore (1985) recorded it only as far north as Fraser Island, Queensland.