Species Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dactylopus pygmaeus Claus, C. 1863. Die frei lebenden Copepoden mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Fauna Deutschlands, der Nordsee und des Mittelmeeres. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig i-x: 230 [186].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [944].
• Canthocamptus setosus Claus, C. 1866. Die Copepoden-Fauna von Nizza. Ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik der Formen und deren Abänderungen 'im Sinne Darwins'. Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg Supplement 1: 1-34 [30] [junior subjective synonym of Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863)].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [944].
• Canthocamptus parvus Scott, T. & Scott, A. 1896. On some new and rare British Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 18: 1-8 [6] [junior subjective synonym of Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863)].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [944].
• Mesochra pygmaea meridionalis Steuer, A. 1943. Variabilitat und Verbreitung einiger Copepoda Harpacticoida der Gattungen Ameira und Mesochra aus dem östlichen Mittelmeer (Alexandrien). Thalassia Rovigno 6(1): 1-19 [junior subjective synonym of Mesochra pygmaea (Claus, 1863)].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [944]
• 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 [1, 6]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA, Swan River estuary; SA, Gulf St Vincent; NSW, Port Hacking (Sydney).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: 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

Antarctic Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia

Palaearctic Region

• Algeria
• Bulgaria
• Egypt
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Norway
• Romania
• Sweden
• Tunisia
• United Kingdom
  • England
  • Scotland
• Yugoslavia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in algae, seagrasses and sand washings.

 

ID Keys

see Hamond (1971).

 

Diagnosis 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 [8-11] (revised description of female)

 

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 [8-11] (revised description of female; record of New South Wales species)

Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [944-945]

Nicholls, A.G. 1941. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. I — Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 381-427 (record of South Australian species)

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

 

History of changes

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