Genus Haloniscus Chilton, 1920

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• Haloniscus Chilton, C. 1920. On a new isopodan genus (family Oniscidae) from Lake Corangamite, Victoria. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44: 723-734.

  Type species:

   Haloniscus searlei Chilton, 1920 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL)

General References

Cooper, S.J.B., Saint, K.M., Taiti, S., Austin, A.D. & Humphreys, W.F. 2008. Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea:Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 195-203

Taiti, S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2001. New aquatic Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) from groundwater calcretes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 64: 133-155 (genus transferred to Scyphacidae)

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