Species Haloniscus searlei Chilton, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haloniscus searlei Chilton, C. 1920. On a new isopodan genus (family Oniscidae) from Lake Corangamite, Victoria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44: 723-734 [724].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) CMNZ Chilton Jar 47 (could not be located by Williams (1970)), Lake Corangamite, VIC.
• Philoscia salina Baker, W.H. 1926. An aquatic oniscid (Crustacea). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 145-146 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C792 ♂, "Pool of Siloam", Beachport, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA C864, C867, C868.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nicholls, G.E. & Barnes, H.M. 1926. Description of a new species of terrestrial isopod, Haloniscus stepheni, from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12: 87-96 [88]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, salt lake, terrestrial.

 

General References

Williams, W.D. 1970. Redescription of Haloniscus searlei Chilton (Isopoda, Oniscoidea, Oniscidae) from an Australian salt lake. Crustaceana 19: 311-319 (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED