Species Branchinella wellardi Milner, 1929
- Branchinella wellardi Milner, D.F. 1929. A description of two new species of Anostracan Phyllopoda from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 25-35-3 pls, 1 text fig. [29-31 pl. 6].
Type data:
Status unknown, none known, but originally collected from Dalgaranga Station in the Yalgoo district, WA.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Central western WA (Carnarvon and Murchinson districts) (Timms, 2002) and north-west NSW and south-west Qld (Timms & Sanders 2002).
IBRA
NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Presumably a filter feeder; found mainly in shallow, short-lived clear-water pools (Timms & Sanders 2002).
General References
Geddes, M.C. 1981. Revision of Australian species of Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 253-295 [281 fig. 16f]
Linder, F. 1941. Contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of the Branchiopoda Anostraca. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 20: 101-303 [269]
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 [87]
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. [56 fig. 72] (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
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
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