Species Hamondia superba Huys, 1990

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• Hamondia superba Huys, R. 1990. A new harpacticoid copepod family collected from Australian sponges and the status of the subfamily Rhynchothalestrinae Lang. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 99: 51-115 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J17367 ♀ (dissected) (specimens found in washings from sponges taken at a depth of 15 to 18m on a vertical rock face at Pope's Eye, in the entrance to Pt Phillip, Victoria, Australia; collected by Mrs J.E. Watson by by SCUBA-diving on 30/5/1976; lat. long. not specified; holotype and male paratype are held at NMV, other paratypes are in Huys' private collection), Victoria, Australia.
  Paratype(s) NMV J17368 ♂ (dissected), Victoria, Australia; whereabouts unknown 2♀ 1copepodid (specimens found in washings from sponges taken at a depth of 15 to 18m on a vertical rock face at Pope's Eye, in the entrance to Pt Phillip, Victoria, Australia; collected by Mrs J.E Watson by By SCUBA-diving on 30/5/1976; lat. long. not not specified; holotype and male paratype are held at NMV, other paratypes are in Huys' private collection), Victoria, Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Vic, Pope's Eye, Port Phillip Bay.

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Found on a sponge.

 

General References

Huys, R. 1990. A new harpacticoid copepod family collected from Australian sponges and the status of the subfamily Rhynchothalestrinae Lang. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 99: 51-115

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED