Species Australocyclops australis (Sars, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclops australis Sars, G.O. 1896. On fresh-water Entomostraca from the neighbourhood of Sydney, partly raised from dried mud. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Kristiania 18(3): 1-81 [1].

 

Generic Combinations

• Australocyclops australis (Sars, 1896). —
  Morton, D.W. 1985. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida). I. Acanthocyclops Kiefer, Diacyclops Kiefer and Australocyclops, gen. nov. Marine and Freshwater Research 36(4): 615-634 [625] (changed combination as type species of the genus Australocyclops)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, temporary pool.

 

ID Keys

Key to species of this genus: Morton 1985: 626.

 

General References

Morton, D.W. 1985. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida). I. Acanthocyclops Kiefer, Diacyclops Kiefer and Australocyclops, gen. nov. Marine and Freshwater Research 36(4): 615-634 [626]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	CYCLOPIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	11-Sep-2019	MODIFIED
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		24-Aug-2010	MODIFIED