Genus Bennelongia De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981

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Genus Bennelongia De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981

Bennelongia De Deckker, P. & McKenzie, K.G. 1981. Bennelongia, a new Cyprididid ostracod genus from Australasia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 105(1/2): 53-58 [53].
Type species:
Bennelongia harpago De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981 by original designation.

Introduction

DeDeckker and Matens (2013) describe three new species, but do not establish new names for these: Bennelongia cf. nimala, Bennelongia sp. 414, and Bennelongia cf. barangaroo.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Channel Country (CHC), Mulga Lands (ML) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Central Kimberley (CK)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Diagnosis

Adults with strongly asymmetrical valves anteriorly; left valve beak-like anteroventrally: selvage displace inwards with inner list forming broad but short lip-like structure which does not extend anterodorsally. Anteroventral area of right valve usually smooth-curved but occasionally with beak-like flange. Prehensile palps asymmetrical. Basal segment of second thoracopod with two setae, penultimate segment divided. Lateral lobe of hemipenis broadly boot-shaped.