Species Anaspides spinulae Williams, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anaspides spinulae Williams, W.D. 1965. Ecological notes on the Tasmanian Syncarida (Crustacea: Malacostraca), with a description of a new species of Anaspides. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie 50: 95-126 [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P14146, Lake St Clair, TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM P14147 (as allotype); AM P14148–56.

  Type locality 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] [346–347].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [346]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Lake St Clair.

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater.

 

General References

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 (misidentified as Anaspis tasmaniae Thomson, 1893)

Thomson, G.M. 1894. On a freshwater schizopod from Tasmania. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 6: 285-303 [286] (misidentified as Anaspides tasmaniae Thomson, 1894)

Williams, W.D. 1974. Freshwater Crustacea. pp. 63-112 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp. (ecology, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-May-2011		12-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)