Species Branchinella hattahensis Geddes, 1981

Museums

Regional Maps

• Branchinella nichollsi hattahensis Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295 [264 fig. 5b].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM W26946, Hattah Lake, Vic.
  Paralectotype(s) QM W26947.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Vic and south-west Qld, and possibly in between, in western NSW (Timms 2004).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Presumedly a filter feeder; lives in fresh to lightly hyposaline water (Timms & Sanders 2002; Timms 2004).

 

General References

Belk, D. & J. Brtek, J. 1995. Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia 298: 315-353 [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 [449 figs 5C, D, 8] (supporting evidence supplied for revised status)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Jan-2013		15-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
09-Aug-2012		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
18-Aug-2010		18-Aug-2010	MODIFIED
		14-May-2010	MODIFIED