Cymadusa tattersalli Peart 2004
Creators: name: Hughes, Lauren E.
name: Peart, Rachael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Ampithoidae
Cymadusa
Cymadusa tattersalli

description: Cymadusa tattersalli Peart, 2004
Cymadusa setosa.—Tattersall, 1922: 12–13, pl. 2, figs 21–24.
Cymadusa tattersalli Peart, 2004: 314, figs 8–11.—Peart, 2007a: 33, figs 27–28.— Hughes & Lowry, 2009: 198–201, figs 27– 28.
Type locality. Woodman Point, Cockburn Sound, Western Australia.
Material examined. Northern Territory: Male, 14.1 mm, dissected, 4 slides MAGNT Cr017890, south side, Mjrungga Island, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land (11°56’59”S 135°5’39E), 2.8m, 4 December 2004, coll. S.K. Horner and G.M. Dally (SKH 04/144).
Queensland: 3 specimens, AM P.88431, Palm Island (18°44’S 146°34’E), coll. G.J. Edgar.
Lord Howe Island: 1 specimen, AM P.88430 (31°31’12”S 159°03’48”E), 17 February 2006, coll. A. Davey.
South Australia: 2 specimens, NMV J57022, Seven Mile Beach, north of Dongara (29°12’00”S 114°53”00’E), 1 m, 24 April 1986 (SWA 88); 5 specimens, NMV J57112, Seven Mile Beach, north of Dongara (29°12’00”S 114°53’00”E), 1 m, 24 April 1986 (SWA 92); 3 specimens, NMV J57023, reef 500 m offshore, Port Gregory (28°12’00”S 114°15’00”E), 1 m, 28 April 1986 (SWA 102).
Western Australia: 1 specimen, AM P.79451, west of Rottnest Island (32°00’S 115°16’E), intertidal, exposed reef flat, on test of urchin Echinometra mathaei, 1 November 1982, coll. D. Jones; 5 specimens, AM P.79485, Woodman Point (32°08’S 115°44’E), 20 August 1997, coll. D. Mead-Hunter; 9 specimens, AM P.80006, inner lagoon, Ningaloo Reef (21°53’09”S 113°59’26”E), 2 m, algae, 18 June 2008, coll. L.E. Hughes (MI WA 987); 3 specimens, AM P.80007, mooring bouys off boat ramp, Ningaloo Reef (21°54’46”S 113°58’43”E), 2 m, artificial substrate, 16 June 2008, L.E. Hughes (MI WA 985); 1 specimens, AM P.80008, inner lagoon, Ningaloo Reef (21°53’09”S 113°59’26”E), 2.6 m, algae, 19 June 2008, coll. L.E. Hughes (MI WA 988); 2 specimens, AM P.83807, Jackson Island, Cape Leveque (16°25’19”S 123°05’19”E), 5.6 m, mixed turfing algae including brown alga Padina sp. and filamentous red algae, 27 May 2010, coll. L.E. Hughes (MI WA 1145); 1 specimen, AM P.83808, west side of Cassini Island, Kimberley (13°57’S 125°37’E), 18 July 1988, coll. P.A. Hutchings (st 59); 2 specimens, WAM C45414, Montgomery Island, Kimberley (15°53’52”S 124°10’54”E), intertidal, back reef, 21 October 2009, coll. Lee Paterson (20/K09-T1).
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 5 specimens, AM P.81873, off West Island Jetty (12°05’15”S 96°50’14”E), 2 m, brown alga Padina sp., 14 October 2008, coll. L.E. Hughes and J.K. Lowry (MI WA 841).
Distribution. Australia. South Australia: Dongara, Port Gregory (current study). Northern Territory: Arnhem Land (current study). Western Australia: Kimberley, Ningaloo Reef, Woodman Point, Rottnest Island, Dongara (Peart 2004, 2007a; current study). Queensland (Hughes & Lowry 2009). Indian Ocean: Cocos (Keeling) Islands (current study).
description: Published as part of Hughes, Lauren E. & Peart, Rachael A., 2013, New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian Waters, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3719 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3719.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/246657