New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species Author Poore, Gary C. B. Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia Author Lowry, James K. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia (deceased 4 November 2021) text Records of the Australian Museum 2023 Rec. Aust. Mus. 2023-12-06 75 4 519 533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890 journal article 10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890 2201-4349 8580D095-3E88-4FB5-B2D6-5DA6755BB16A Ampelisca euroa Lowry & Poore, 1985 Ampelisca euroa Lowry & Poore, 1985: 273–278 , figs 13, 14. Material examined . NMV J71740–71742 , 3 specimens , Australia , Queensland , 1 km E of Yorke Island , Torres Strait , 09.8°S 143.4°E , 41 m (ASB-1 stns) ; NMV J71744–71747 , 7 specimens , N side of Noddy Reef , 13.6°S 143.8°E , 42 m (ASB-2 stns) ; NMV J71748 , 1 specimen , N of Green Island , 16.7°S 145.9°E , 52 m (ASB-3 stn) ; NMV J71749–71755 , 12 specimens , N end of Hervey Bay , off Burnett Heads , 24.5°S 152.8°E , 46–49 m (ASB-5 stns) . Distribution . Australia , Queensland ( 9°S ) to South Australia , shelf and bays, 3– 176 m . Remarks . Ampelisca euroa is distinguished from other Australian species in the broad second article of the mandibular palp and the absence of a tooth on coxae 1–3. The species is the commonest and most widespread species of Ampelisca in eastern Australia . It occurs on the shelf of South Australia and throughout Bass Strait ; its northern and eastern distribution is here expanded from New South Wales to Torres Strait , Queensland ( 9°S ) .