Species Canthocamptus howardorum Hamond, 1987

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• Canthocamptus howardorum Hamond, R. 1987. Non-marine harpacticoid copepods of Australia. I. Canthocamptidae of the genus Canthocamptus Westwood s. lat. and Fibulacamptus, gen. nov., and including the description of a related new species of Canthocamptus from New Caledonia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1(8): 1023-1247 [1088].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J11110 ♀ (Australian Paper Manufacturers' Forestry Reserve, Northern Tasmania; lat. long. not stated by author), northern Tasmana.
  Paratype(s) NMV J11111 1♂ (Australian Paper Manufacturers' Forestry Reserve, Northern Tasmania; lat. long. not stated by author), northern Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Leaf litter.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in the leaf litter of Nothofagus and Eucalyptus and in moss.

 

ID Keys

see Hamond (1987).

 

Diagnosis References

Hamond, R. 1987. Non-marine harpacticoid copepods of Australia. I. Canthocamptidae of the genus Canthocamptus Westwood s. lat. and Fibulacamptus, gen. nov., and including the description of a related new species of Canthocamptus from New Caledonia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1(8): 1023-1247 [1088-1089] (diagnosis of new species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED