Species Branchinella buchananensis Geddes, 1981
- Branchinella nichollsi buchananensis Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295 [264 fig. 5c].
Type data:
Lectotype QM W26939, Lake Buchanan, north-east Qld.
Paralectotype(s) QM W26940, W26941.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Lake Buchanan and middle Paroo district in south-west Qld and north-west NSW (Geddes 1981; Timms & Sanders 2002; Timms 2004).
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Presumedly a filter feeder; lives in hyposaline-mesosaline lakes (TImms 2004).
General References
Belk, D. & J. Brtek, J. 1995. Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia 298: 315-353 [323-324] (revised status, but no supporting evidence given)
Timms, B.V. 2005. Two new species of Branchinella ( Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) and a reappraisal of the Branchinella nichollsi group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 441-452 [447-449 figs 5E,F, 6, 7] (supporting evidence for revised status)
Timms, B.V. & Sanders, P.R. 2002. Biogeography and ecology of fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the middle Paroo catchment of arid-zone Australia. Hydrobiologia 486: 225-238
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