Species Mesochra baylyi Hamond, 1971

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• Mesochra baylyi Hamond, R. 1971. The Australian species of Mesochra (Crustacea: Harpacticoida), with a comprehensive key to the genus. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 7: 1-32 [6-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (collected 10 July, 1969 by B.V. Timms; holotype thought to be in the author's collection), Lake Gnotuk, Camperdown, Victoria.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ (referred to as the allotype; collected on 10 July, 1969 by B.V. Timms; type material believed to be in Hamond's personal collection), Lake Gnotuk, Camperdown, Victoria; whereabouts unknown (some paratypes were sent to Dr P. Bodin), Lake Gnotuk, Camperdown, Victoria; USNM 134774 (collected on 10 July, 1969 by B.V. Timms; lat. long. not stated by author; etymology not stated by author), Lake Gnotuk, Camperdown, Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SA, Beachport, Robe and the Coorong; found in saline lakes.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: 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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: free-living.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in saline lakes in thick beds of filamentous algae.

 

ID Keys

see Hamond (1971).

 

General References

Bayly, I.A.E. 1970. Further studies on some saline lakes of south-east Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 21: 117-129 (record of Australian species)

Hamond, R. 1971. The Australian species of Mesochra (Crustacea: Harpacticoida), with a comprehensive key to the genus. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 7: 1-32 (record of Australian species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED