Species Limnadopsis tatei Spencer & Hall, 1896

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Regional Maps

• Limnadopsis tatei Spencer, B. & Hall, T.S. 1896. Crustacea. Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. II. Zoology. London and Melbourne. [241, figs 20-27].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Novojilov (1958) claims to have used a hototype is his redescription, but it is based on no more than Daday's (1925) description which was based on the original description by Spencer & Hall (1896); NMV has material (J54043) that could be the original specimens that Spencer collected), unknown; original material from Central Australia, between Oodnadatta and Charlotte Waters.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in Inland Australia, including northern SA (Spencer & Hall 1896), southern NT (Spencer & Hall 1896), north-western NSW (Timms & Richter 2002), south-western Qld (Timms & Richter 2002).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau

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 [58] (listed as Limnadiopsium tatei)

Daday, E. 1925. Monographie systématique de Phyllopodes conchostracés. Troisième Partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 10 8: 143-184 10 figs [181-183, fig. 123] (as Limnadiopsis tatei, misspelling of the genus name)

Dakin, W.J. 1914. Fauna of Western Australia. II. The Phyllopoda of Western Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 293-305 [295] (list)

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, 132] (list and key)

Novojikov, N. 1958. Recueil d'articles sur les Phyllopodes Conchostracés. Ann. Serv. Inf. Géol. BRGGM 26: 5-134 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Limnadiopsium tatei (Spencer & Hall, 1896))

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

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 [250]

Schwentner,M., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. 2012. Description of four new species of Limnadopsis from Australia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa 3315: 42–64 [46] (new records)

Timms, B.V. 2009. A revision of the Australian endemic clam shrimp genus Limnadopsis Spencer & Hall (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 61: 49-72 [55]

Wolf, E. 1911. Phyllopoda. In Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 3. 253-276 pp. [254] (list)

 

History of changes

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