Species Branchinella simplex Linder, 1941

Museums

Regional Maps

• Branchinella simplex Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303 [247-248 fig 32a-d].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C8027, given as Lake Kofar, near Kalgoorlie, WA' type locality erroneous, as there is no such lake (Geddes 1981); given the bad hand writing on the label of the types, the correct spelling is probably Lake Kopai, near Kurrawang, 18 km SW of Kalgoorlie.
  Paratype(s) WAM C8028; ZMU 658.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Middle inland of WA (Timms 2002: fig. 11).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Presumably a filter feeder.

 

General References

Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295

Timms, B.V. 2002. The Fairy Shrimp Genus Branchinella Sayce 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, including a description of four new species. Hydrobiologia 486: 71-89

Timms, B.V. 2004. An Identification Guide to the Fairy Shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) of Australia. CRCFC Identification and Ecology Guide No 47, Thurgoona, NSW. 76 pp. (key)

Timms, B.V. 2012. Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Australia, with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa 3595: 35–60 [55]

 

History of changes

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