Genus Anaspides Thomson, 1894

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anaspides Thomson, G.M. 1894. On a freshwater schizopod from Tasmania. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 6: 285-303 [286] [nom. nov. for Anaspis Thomson, 1893].
• Anaspis Thomson, G.M. 1893. Notes on Tasmanian Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 45-76 [51] [junior homonym of Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera)].

  Type species:

   Anaspis tasmaniae Thomson, 1893 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Ahyong, Shane T. 2016. The Tasmanian mountain shrimps, Anaspides Thomson, 1894 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspididae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(7): 313–364 [Date published 7 December 2016]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Diagnosis

Rostrum prominent, well-developed. Cephalothorax without fenestra dorsalis. Body subcylindrical, straight or evenly curved, without prominent “bump-like” flexure at pleonite 1. Free pereonites length subequal, shorter than pleonites. Pleonite 6 shorter than twice length of pleonite 5; surface of integument with few setae but no spines. Telson dorsoventrally compressed; posterior margin rounded or angular, with spine row. Antennular and antennal peduncles unarmed. Scaphocerite with small lateral spine. Thoracopod 1 (maxilliped) with epipods. Thoracopod 7 with exopod. Uropodal endopod more than three-fourths length of exopod; exopod with small group of movable spines near position of diaraesis.

 

Diagnosis References

Ahyong, Shane T. 2016. The Tasmanian mountain shrimps, Anaspides Thomson, 1894 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspididae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(7): 313–364 [Date published 7 December 2016] [315]

 

General References

Ahyong, Shane T. 2016. The Tasmanian mountain shrimps, Anaspides Thomson, 1894 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspididae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(7): 313–364 [Date published 7 December 2016]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2017	SYNCARIDA Packard, 1885	24-Aug-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
08-Jul-2015	ANASPIDIDAE Thomson, 1893	06-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
12-May-2011		12-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)