Species Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Estheria hislopi Baird, W. 1859. Description of some new recent Entomostraca from Nagpur, collected by the Rev. S. Hislop. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 63: 231-234 [232, pl. 63, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1945.9.48-55, Nagpur, India.

 

Generic Combinations

• Limnadia hislopi (Baird, 1859). —
  Brady, G.S. 1886. Notes on freshwater Entomostraca from South Australia. Proceeding of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1886: 82-93 [294, pl. 37, figs 1-3]
• Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird, 1859). —
  Sars, G.O. 1887. On Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird), a new generic type of bivalve Phyllopoda; raised from dried Australian mud. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania 1: 1-65 [223, pls i-viii]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical, in Australia, C. hislopi is restricted to the far north of WA, northern NT, north-western Qld, but in eastern Qld it extends southwards to the limit of the tropics (see Timms 1986: fig. 2 for further details).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Probably suspension feeder.

 

General References

Brtek, J. 1997. Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the “Large Branchiopods” (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea. Prírodné Vedy 43: 3-66 [46] (listed as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Daday, E. 1926. Monographie systématique des Phyllopodes Conchostracés. Troisième partie (suite). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 10 9: 1-81 (505-585) [76-81, fig. 146] (as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Henry, M. 1924. A monograph of the freshwater Entomostraca of New South Wales. Part IV. Phyllopoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1924: 120-137 [122] (listed as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Richter, S. & Timms, B.V. 2005. A list of recent clam shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, including a description of a new species of Eocyzicus. Records of the Australian Museum 57: 341-354

Sars, G.O. 1887. On Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird), a new generic type of bivalve Phyllopoda; raised from dried Australian mud. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania 1: 1-65 [223, pls i-viii] (as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Sayce, O.A. 1903. The Phyllopoda of Australia, including descriptions of some new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 15: 224-261, pl. 27-36 [256-257, pl. 36, figs C, 1-2] (as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Schwentner, M., Clavier, S., Fritsch, M., Olesen, J., Padhye, S., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. 2013. Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): A group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 800–810

Timms, B.V. 1979. The benthos of some lakes in northeastern Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 90: 57-64 [57] (as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Timms, B.V. 1986. Cyclestheria hislopi (Conchostraca) in Australia. Crustaceana 51: 302-305 [302-305, fig. 1] (as Cyclestheria hislopi)

Timms, B.V. 2018. Keys to the Australian clam shrimps (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida). Museum Victoria Science Report 20: 1-25 [available online at https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/museum-victoria-science-reports/] [8]

 

History of changes

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