Species Austrochiltonia australis (Sayce, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hyalella australis Sayce, O.A. 1901. Description of some new Victorian freshwater Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 13: 225-242 pls 36-40 [226, pl. 36].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV J11247 ♂, Yarra Lagoon, East Kew, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV J11248 1♀; NMV J11249 16 specimens.

Generic Combinations

• Austrochiltonia australis (Sayce, 1901). —
  Hurley, D.E. 1959. Austrochiltonia, a new generic name for some Australian freshwater amphipods. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(1): 765-768 [765]
• Chiltonia australis (Sayce, 1901). —
  Sayce, O.A. 1902. Description of some new Victorian freshwater Amphipoda, No. 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 15: 47-58 pls 4-7 [47]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, lotic freshwater, salt lake.

Extra Ecological Information

Euryhaline, tolerates saline water up to 25‰.

General References

Bayly, I.A.E. & Williams, W.D. 1966. Chemical and biological studies on some saline lakes of south-east Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 17: 177-228

King, R.A., & Leys, R. 2011. The Australian freshwater amphipods Austrochiltonia australis and Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Amphipoda : Talitroidea : Chiltoniidae) confirmed and two new cryptic Tasmanian species revealed using a combined molecular and morphological approach. Invertebrate Systematics 25: 171-196 [181]

King, R.A. & Leys, R. 2014. Molecular evidence for mid-Pleistocene divergence of populations of three freshwater amphipod species (Talitroidea : Chiltoniidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, with a new spring-associated genus and species. Australian Journal of Zoology 2014 62: 137-156

Zeidler, W. 1988. A redescription of Afrochiltonia capensis (K.H. Barnard, 1916) with a review of the genera of the family Ceinidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Annals of the South African Museum 95(5): 105-119

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