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Genus Branchinella Sayce, 1903

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Genus Branchinella Sayce, 1903

Introduction

Five known undescribed species of Branchinella have also been recorded from various localities around Australia (see Timms 2012).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Mallee (MAL), Pilbara (PIL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Note

Brtek (1996) resurrected Branchinellites for some overseas species of Branchinella, but did not define it adequately. Consequently, his proposal has been ignored (e.g. Brendonck 1997; Belk & Brtek 1997; Rogers 2002). Later, Brtek (1997) separated Branchinellites into two subgenera, Branchinellites sensu stricto, and Branchinellopsis, again poorly defined and largely ignored (e.g. Rogers 2002). Rogers (in press) redefines Branchinellites and uses it to accommodate some overseas species formally in Branchinella. None of these decisions affects Australian species, though it is likely that all overseas species presently in Branchinella will be moved elsewhere, making Branchinella an endemic Australian genus (D.C. Rogers, pers. comm.).

 

General References

Belk, D. & J. Brtek, J. 1995. Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia 298: 315-353

Brendonck, L. 1997. The anostracan genus Branchinella (Crustacea: Branchiopoda), in need of a taxonomic revision; evidence from penile morphology. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 119: 447-455

Brtek, J. 1996. Gurneya, a new genus of Thamnocephalidae (Branchiopoda, Anostraca), with some notes on the taxonomy of the family. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea. Prírodné Vedy 42: 3-7

Brtek, J. 1997. Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the “Large Branchiopods” (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea. Prírodné Vedy 43: 3-66

Daday, E. 1910. Monographie systematique des Phyllopdes Anostraces. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie et Biologie Animale b 11: 91-489

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

Henry, M. 1924. A monograph of the freshwater Entomostraca of New South Wales. Part IV. Phyllopoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1924: 120-137

Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303

Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303 [237] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Branchinellites Daday, 1910)

Pinceel, T., Vanschoenwinkel, B., Waterkeyn, A., Vanhove, M.P.M., Pinder, A., Timms, B.V. & Brendonck, L. 2013. Fairy shrimps in distress: a molecular taxonomic review of the diverse fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Australia in the light of ongoing environmental change. Hydrobiologia 700: 313–327

Rogers, D.C. 2002. Amplexial morphology of selected Anostraca. Hydrobiologia 486: 1-18

Rogers, D.C. 2006. A genus level revision of the Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea; Branchiopoda; Anostraca). Zootaxa 1260: 1-25

Smirnov, S. 1932. Bernerkungen über Phyllopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 100: 139-145 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Podochirus Schwartz, 1917)

Timms, B.V. 2008. Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea, Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, with descriptions of new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 289–306

Timms, B.V. 2012. An appraisal of the diversity and distribution of large Branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida, Notostraca) in Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 32(4): 615–623

Timms, B.V. 2015. A revised identification guide to the fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca: Anostracina) of Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 19: 1–44

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2018 ANOSTRACA Sars, 1867 04-Sep-2018 MODIFIED
15-Jan-2013 15-Jan-2013 MODIFIED
09-Aug-2012 09-Aug-2012 MODIFIED
18-Aug-2010 18-Aug-2010 MODIFIED
14-May-2010 MODIFIED