Subspecies Orthopsyllus linearis illgi (Chappuis, 1958)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Enhydrosoma illgi Chappuis, P.A. 1958. Harpacticoïdes psammiques marins des environs de Seattle (Washington, U.S.A.). Vie et Milieu 8: 409-422 [417].
• Orthopsyllus rugosus Nicholls, A.G. 1941. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. I — Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 381-427 [420-422].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, SAMA ♀ (localities found given as St Vincent and Spencer Gulfs; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls), South Australia; SAMA ♀ (localities found given as St Vincent and Spencer Gulfs; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls), South Australia.
• Orthopsyllus similis Nicholls, A.G. 1942. Marine Copepoda from Western Australia. I. Littoral harpacticoids from Rottnest Island. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 135-141.

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♀ (species were discovered on Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls; current whereabouts of specimens is unknown), Western Australia; whereabouts unknown ♀ (species were discovered on Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls; current whereabouts of specimens is unknown), Western Australia.
• Orthopsyllus pectinicauda Vervoot, W. 1964. Free-living Copepoda from Ifaluk Atoll, in the Carolina Islands. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Bulletin 236: 1-431 [294].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (collected from Caulerpa), Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands.
  Paratype(s) USNM 1♂ (collected from sand), Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bodin, P. 1997. Catalogue of the new marine harpacticoids. pp. 1-304 in Bodin, P. (ed.). Documents de Travail de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Brussels : L'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 304 pp. [160]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also found in the Caroline Islands (Pacific Ocean), north-east of Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: marine.

 

General References

Boer, P. 1971. Harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) living in wood infested by Limnoria from north-western France. Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2(8): 63-77 [66] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Lang, K. 1965. Copepoda Harpacticoidea from the Californian Pacific coast. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm Series 4 10: 1-560 [403] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

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		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED