Species Halicyclops eberhardi De Laurentiis, Pesce & Humphreys, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halicyclops eberhardi 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 [115].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C24700 ♀ (found at Paroo Station, Wiluna, bore GSWA 15A (haul net), Western Australia), Yilgarn Region, Western Australia [26°24'02"S 119°45'47"E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C24701, C24702, C24703. 5♀ (found at Paroo Station, Wiluna, bore GSWA 15A, 6B (haul net), Western Australia), Yilgarn Region, Western Australia [26°24'02"S 119°45'47"E].

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, underground water.

ID Keys

Key to Australian Halicyclops species: Karanovic 2004: 58.

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 [116]

General References

Karanovic, T. 2004. Subterranean Copepods from Arid Western Australia. Zeist, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill Academic Publishers 366 pp. [39]

Karanovic, T. 2022. Using landmark-based geometric morphometrics for holotype selection in cryptic species: a case study for Western Australian Halicyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). Crustaceana 95(5–6): 631–666 (Revised diagnosis)

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