• Leydigia Kurz, W. 1875. Dodekas neuer Cladoceren nebst einer kurzen Übersicht der Cladocerenfauna Böhmens. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 70: 7-88 [57].

  Type species:

   Alona leydigi Schoedler, 1863 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld, SA, Vic: Gulf Plains (GUP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

History of changes

• Lynceus acanthocercoides Fischer, S. 1854. Abhandlung über einige neue oder nicht genau gekannte Arten von Daphniden und Lynceiden als Beitrag zur Fauna Russlands. Byulletin' Moskovskogo Obshchesteva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii 27: 423-434 [431].

Generic Combinations

• Leydigia acanthocercoides (Fischer, 1854). —
  Sars, G.O. 1895. On some South African Entomostraca raised from dried mud. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 8: 1-56 [18]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

History of changes

• Leydigia australis Sars, G.O. 1885. On some Australian Cladocera, raised from dried mud. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger 8: 1-46 [35].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, UZMO, raised from mud from Gracemere Lagoon, about 7 miles west of Rockhampton, North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Isolated areas of Queensland and Victoria (Smirnov & Timms 1983: 54).

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria: SE coastal

History of changes

• Leydigia australis australis Sars, G.O. 1885. On some Australian Cladocera, raised from dried mud. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger 8: 1-46 [35].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Type locality, Gracemere Lagoon, 10 km west of Rockhampton, Qld (Smirnov & Timms 1983: 55).

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria: SE coastal

History of changes

• Leydigia ciliata Gauthier, H. 1939. Contribution á l'étude de la faune dulcaquicole de la région du Tchad et particulierment des Branchiopodes et des Ostracodes. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 1: 110-244 [169].
• Leydigia striata Birabén, M. 1939. Los Cladoceros de la familia "Chydoridae". Physis (Buenos Aires) 17: 651-671 [651].
• Leydigia propinqua ciliata Gauthier, H. 1939. Contribution á l'étude de la faune dulcaquicole de la région du Tchad et particulierment des Branchiopodes et des Ostracodes. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 1: 110-244 [169] [as Leydigia propinqua var. ciliata].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

History of changes

• Leydigia laevis Gurney, R. 1927. Some Australian freshwater Entomostracans reared from dried mud. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 59-79 [73].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, reared from mud sent from Longreach, Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Longreach QLD.

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin

History of changes

• Alona leydigi Schoedler, J.E. 1863. Neue Beiträge zur Naturgeschechte der Cladoceren. Berlin : August Hirschwald 88pp. [27].

Generic Combinations

• Leydigia leydigii (Schoedler, 1863). —
  Kurz, W. 1875. Dodekas neuer Cladoceren nebst einer kurzen Übersicht der Cladocerenfauna Böhmens. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 70: 7-88 [57]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

History of changes