Genus Argulus Müller, 1785

Museums

Regional Maps

• Argulus Müller, O.F. 1785. Entomostraca seu Insecta Testacea quae in aquis Daniae et Norvegiae reperit, descripsit et iconibus illustravit Otho Fridericus Müller. Lipsiae & Havniae : F.W. Thiele pp. 1-134. [133].

  Type species (included species):

   Argulus delphinus Müller, 1785; Argulus charon Müller, 1785 (Both are junior subjective synonyms of Argulus foliaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) originally described in the genus Monoculus).

  Secondary source:

   Wilson, C.B. 1903. North American parasitic copepods of the family Argulidae, with bibliography of the group and a systematic review of all the species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25: 635-742, pls 8-26 [637].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, most commonly in freshwater but also estuaries and shallow marine water.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory: N coast
  • Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria
  • Western Australia: Central W coast, SW coastal

History of changes

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