Species Branchinella longirostris Wolf, 1911

Museums

Regional Maps

• Branchinella longirostris Wolf, E. 1911. Phyllopoda. In Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3. 253-276 pp. [257-259 figs1, 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM, pools on Boorabbin Rock, via Merredin, WA.
  Paratype(s) ZMB
  Comment: WAM has a holotype listed (7131) but it has never been located (Jones 1986). Geddes (1981) saw a holotype and noted it was disintegrated. This holotype appears now not to exist. ZMB has type material consisting of three specimens (16321), and, given that there is supposed to be a holotype, these should be regarded as paratypes.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central, north and eastern Wheatbelt and adjacent Goldfields of WA (Timms 2004; Timms, in press: fig. 2).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Presumedly a filter feeder; of all species of Branchinellla, this is the most specific in its habitat, which is pools on granite outcrops (Bayly 1997; Pinder et al. 2000; Timms, in press).

 

Note

This is the most variable species of Branchinella (Geddes 1981; author, unpublished data).

 

General References

Bayly, I.A.E. 1997. Invertebrates of temporary waters in gnammas on granite outcrops in Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 80: 167-172

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

Jones, D.S. 1986. A catalogue of type specimens of Crustacea in the Western Australian Museum, Perth. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 1-46

Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303

Pinder, A.M., Halse, S.A., Shiel, R.J. & McRae, J.M. 2000. Granite outcrop pools in south-western Australia: foci of diversification and refugia for aquatic invertebrates. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 83: 149-161

Timms, B.V. 2002. The Fairy Shrimp Genus Branchinella Sayce 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, including a description of four new species. Hydrobiologia 486: 71-89

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

Zofkova, M. & Timms, B.V. [in press] 2006. Phylogeography of morphologically diverse anostracan Branchinella longirostris (Wolf, 1911) from granite rock pools in Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

 

History of changes

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