Species Mesochra parva Thomson, 1946

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mesochra parva Thomson, J.M. 1946. New Crustacea from the Swan River estuary. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 30: 35-53 [40].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (Hamond (1971) stated that he kept the types in his own collection 'for the time being'), Freshwater Bay in the Swan River, Western Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ (Hamond (1971) stated in his paper that he kept type material in his own collection 'for the time being'), Freshwater Bay in the Swan River, Western Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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 [4-6].

Introduction

First record from South Australia from "an EPA-collected sample, DEWNR CLLAMM project, plankton tow by boat at the confluence of the Finniss R and the Goolwa Channel 22 Nov. 2013", R. Shiel, pers. comm. March 2014.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Brackish water, estuary.

Extra Ecological Information

Estuarine waters in algae and in brackish lagoons.

ID Keys

see Hamond (1971).

General References

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 species from New South Wales)

Thomson, J.M. 1946. New Crustacea from the Swan River estuary. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 30: 35-53 (record of species from Western Australia)

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