Species Australonannopus aestuarinus Hamond, 1974

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• Australonannopus aestuarinus Hamond, R. 1974. Australonannopus aestuarinus gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea: Harpacticoida), an aberrant cletodid from Australian brackish waters. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107: 239-245 [240-243].

  Type data:

   Holotype TMH G1447 ♀ (found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E].
  Paratype(s) TMH G1448 1♂ (recorded as allotype; found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E]; whereabouts unknown 1♀ (found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972; these paratypes are thought to be in the private collections of R. Hamond), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E]; whereabouts unknown 1♀ (found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972; these paratypes are thought to be in the private collections of R. Hamond), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E]; whereabouts unknown 1♂, Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E]; whereabouts unknown 1♂ (found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972; these paratypes are thought to be in the private collections of R. Hamond), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E]; whereabouts unknown 70♀ 24♂, 29 copepodites (found among Entromorpha-like alga growing glutinous black mud; collected by P.S. Lake and R. Hamond on 29 Jan. 1972; these paratypes are thought to be in the private collections of R. Hamond), Browns River, Hobart, Tasmania [42°58'S 147°20'E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Tas, Hobart; NSW, in estuary that drains into Myall Lakes, Middle Creek, Narrabeen Lagoon.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: estuary.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in an Enteromorpha-like alga.

 

General References

Hamond, R. 1974. Australonannopus aestuarinus gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea: Harpacticoida), an aberrant cletodid from Australian brackish waters. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107: 239-245 (record of Australian species)

 

History of changes

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