Species Boeckella major Searle, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Boeckella major Searle, J. 1938. Victorian Copepoda. Victorian Naturalist 55(8): 136-137 [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype (no type material designated; Warburton, Alphington, Daylesford), Victoria, Yarra Valley, Warburton.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, temporary pool.

General References

Bayly, I.A.E. 1964. A revision of the Australasian species of the freshwater genera Boeckella and Hemiboeckella (Copepod: Calanoida). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 15: 180-238 [188]

Fairbridge, W.S. 1945. Western Australian fresh water Calanoids (Copepoda). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1942-1943 29: 25-65 [41]

Morton, D.W. & Bayly, I.A.E. 1977. Studies on the ecology of some temporary freshwater pools in Victoria with special reference to microcrustaceans. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 439-454 [445] (distribution and ecology information)

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