A Memorial Report on the Tom Crawford Collection of Victorian Opisthobranchia

Abstract

Summary Thirty-nine species of opisthobranchiate Gastropoda from the central Victorian coastline comprise the collection of the late Tom Crawford (1944–1966). Six new species are described: Aglaja henri Discodoris crawfordi, D. turia, D. paroa; Sclerodoris tarka and Acanthodoris nanega. Zoogeographically, 71% of the remaining species form part of the large cool-temperate eurythermal fauna that extends from southern Queensland – northern New South Wales around southern Australia to south Western Australia, and 29% have circumglobal and Indo-Pacific relationships.