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Subspecies Triops australiensis australiensis (Spencer & Hall, 1895)

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Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Though uncommon in N coastal, N gulf, NE coastal, SE coastal, S coastal, SW coastal and not in Tasmania (Williams 1968, 1980; Tyler et al. 1996).


Ecological Descriptors

It assumes different forms (varieties/subspecies/species?) in different types of waters: most commonly it lives in turbid waters, as in claypans when it tends to be large and opalescent, but a darker, smaller form lives in clear vegetated water and another form in gnammas in the Murchinson area of WA, and still another form in some inland saline lakes in WA (Wolf 1911; Main 1953; Timms, in press; author, unpublished data).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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09-Aug-2012 01-May-2014 MODIFIED
18-Aug-2010 18-Aug-2010 MODIFIED
14-May-2010 MODIFIED