Species Longipedia nichollsi Wells, 1980

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• Longipedia nichollsi Wells, J.B.J. 1980. A revision of the genus Longipedia Claus (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 70: 103-189 [125].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C.3833 ♀ (specimen cited in Nicholls (1941) as L. coronata), Sellick Beach, Gulf St Vincent, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA C.3834 3♀ (specimens originally cited in Wells (1978) as Laophonte sp.), Moce Island, Lau Group, Fiji; SAMA C.3835 1♂ (specimen originally cited in Wells (1978) as Laophonte sp.), Moce Island, Lau Group, Fiji.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Fiji — Moce Island, Lau Group; SA, Sellicks Beach, Gulf St Vincent; Vic, Westernport Bay.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria
• Fiji

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine.

 

Diagnosis References

Wells, J.B.J. 1980. A revision of the genus Longipedia Claus (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 70: 103-189 [125]

 

General References

Nicholls, A.G. 1941. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. I — Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 381-427 (misidentified as L. cornuta Claus, 1863)

Wells, J.B.J. 1980. A revision of the genus Longipedia Claus (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 70: 103-189 [125]

 

History of changes

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		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED