Species Calamoecia canberra Bayly, 1962

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• Calamoecia canberra Bayly, I.A.E. 1962. Additions to the inland water genus Calamoecia (Copepoda: Calanoida). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13(3): 252-264 [258].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P13751-65 ♂ (Lake George, Weatherley), New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM P13751-65 13♀12♂ (Lake George, Weatherley), New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater.

Diagnosis

The male fifth right leg resembles that of C. australica and C. ampulla in some respects. However, the all-important exopodite of the male fifth left leg is quite different from that of both these species. It would appear that this species has a much more restricted distribution than either C. lucasi or C. tasmanica, for example.

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)

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