Species Fierscyclops fiersi (De Laurentiis, Pesce & Humphreys, 2001)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Metacyclops fiersi De Laurentiis, P., Pesce, G.L., Humphreys, W.F. 2001. Copepods from ground waters of Western Australia, VI. Cyclopidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Yilgarn Region and the Swan Coastal Plain. Records of the Western Australian Museum 64: 115-131 [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C24704 ♀ (Eneabba area west of the Gingin scarp, Western Australia), Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia [29°26'00"S 115°00'00"E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C24705, C24706, C24707 5♀ 1♂ (Eneabba area west of the Gingin scarp, Western Australia), Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia [29°26'00"S 115°00'00"E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Karanovic, T. 2006. Subterranean copepods (Crustaea, Copepoda) from the Pilbara region in Western Australia. Supplement. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 70: 1-236 [106]
• Karanovic, T., Eberhard, S.M. & Murdoch, A. 2011. A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of Australian Metacyclops and Goniocyclops, with description of four new species and three new genera (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). Crustaceana 84(1): 1-67 [1]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, underground water.

ID Keys

Key to the species of Metacyclops: Karanovic 2004: 100.

Diagnosis References

De Laurentiis, P., Pesce, G.L., Humphreys, W.F. 2001. Copepods from ground waters of Western Australia, VI. Cyclopidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Yilgarn Region and the Swan Coastal Plain. Records of the Western Australian Museum 64: 115-131 [121]

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