Species Branchinella compacta Linder, 1941

Museums

Regional Maps

• Branchinella compacta Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303 [245-247 fig. 31].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMU 657a-b, Lake Kariah, via Camperdown, Western Vic.
  Paratype(s) ZMU 657a-b.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

South-est and eastern Vic and adjacent Monaro district, NSW (Timms 2004).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Presumedly a filter feeder; can live in hyposoaline waters (Timms 2004).

 

General References

Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295

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. 2012. Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Australia, with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa 3595: 35–60 [41]

 

History of changes

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