Species Branchinella latzi Geddes, 1981

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• Branchinella latzi Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295 [273-275 fig. 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P19224, Mt Allen Station, NT.
  Paratype(s) AM P19225 (as allotype); AM P19226.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Central Australia; mainly southern NT and also adjacent south-west Qld (Timms 2004).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin

Ecological Descriptors

Presumably a filter feeder; usually found in turbid waters, and once found in the clear water gnammas on top of Uluru, but not apparently now (Timms, in press).

 

General References

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. 2006. The large branchiopods of gnammas (rock holes) in Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 89: 163-173

Timms, B.V. & Geddes, M.C. 2003. The fairy shrimp genus Branchinella Sayce, 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in South Australia and the Northern Territory, including a description of three new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 127: 53-68

 

History of changes

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