Species Boeckella shieli Bayly, 1985
- Boeckella shieli Bayly, I.A.E. 1985. A new species of Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Western Australia, and comments on two other congeners. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12(1): 79-84 [79].
Type data:
Holotype WAM 89-84 ♂ (60 km NNE of Esperance), Truslove, Western Australia [33°21'S 121°43'E].
Paratype(s) WAM 90-84 ♀ (60 km NNE of Esperance), Truslove, Western Australia [33°21'S 121°43'E]; WAM 91-84, 92-84, 93-84, 94-84. 19♂ 36♀ (60 km NNE of Esperance), Truslove, Western Australia [33°21'S 121°43'E].
Distribution
States
Western Australia
IBRA
WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: aquatic, temporary pool.
Diagnosis
This species resembles B. pseudochelae and B. geniculata in the pseudochelate extremity of the male fifth right exopod. It is easily distinguished from the latter in lacking that marked inner expansion on the distal segment of the male fifth right protopod, and also in lacking terminal setae on the male fifth right endopod. B. shieli sp. nov. is also easily separated from B. pseudochelae in having a much shorter fifth right endopod in the male. The structure of the male fifth right endopod of B. shieli sp. nov. closely resembles that described for B. propinqua longisetosa Smith by Bayly (1964, p.208, figures 10G and H), but this form lacks a pseudochelate fifth right exopod and is otherwise quite different
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]
History of changes
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