Genus Calamoecia Brady, 1906
- Calamoecia Brady, G.S. 1906. On the entomostracan fauna of the New Zealand lakes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 692-701 [696].
Secondary source:
Bayly, I.A.E. 1961. A revision of the inland water genus Calamoecia (Copepoda: Calanoida). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12(1): 54-91 [54] (contains a description of the genus and a report on the synonymy with the genus Brunella). - Brunella Smith, G.W. 1909. The fresh-water Crustacea of Tasmania, with remarks on their geographical distribution. Copepoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 11(2): 61-92 [61].
Secondary source:
Bayly, I.A.E. 1961. A revision of the inland water genus Calamoecia (Copepoda: Calanoida). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12(1): 54-91 [54] (contains a description of the genus and a report on the synonymy with the genus Brunella).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Zealand
IBRA
Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Diagnosis
Body slender and elongated; posterior angles of the metasome in the female produced sharply backwards; urosome of the female four-jointed, of the male five-jointed; caudal rami short and rather broad. Anterior antennae two-branched, the outer branch six- (or seven?) jointed and equal in length to the inner branch. Mouth-organs as in Limnocalamus, except that the anterior maxillipeds are destitute of strong terminal claws, being simply setiferous. Inner branches of the first four pairs of feet biarticulate, and, like the outer branches, bearing very long and delicate marginal setae. Fifth pair of feet in both sexes two-branched; in the female the penultimate joint of the three-jointed outer branch is produced into a strong marginal spine, the inner branch is simply biarticulate: in the male the terminal joint of the outer branch of the right foot forms a very long curved claw, the inner branch is simply biarticulate; the foot of the left side somewhat smaller, its outer branch short and club-shaped, inner branch elongated and composed of a single joint.
This genus is more closely allied to Limnocalamus than to any other described genus, but differs in the two-jointed inner rami of the swimming-feet and in the build of the fifth pair of feet in the male.
General References
Bayly, I.A.E. 1961. A revision of the inland water genus Calamoecia (Copepoda: Calanoida). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12(1): 54-91 [59] (Key to the species of Calamoecia)
Bayly, I.A.E. & Arnott, G.H. 1969. A new centropagid genus (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Australian estuarine waters. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 20: 189-198 [194] (Key to the Australian centropagid genera)
Nicholls, A.G. 1944. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia (II) Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Notodelphyoida, Monstrilloida and Caligoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8(1): 1-62 [4-6] (Keys to Brunella females and males)
History of changes
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