Species Branchinella buchananensis Geddes, 1981

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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. 2004. An Identification Guide to the Fairy Shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) of Australia. CRCFC Identification and Ecology Guide No 47, Thurgoona, NSW. 76 pp. (key)

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

 

History of changes

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