Family PARABATHYNELLIDAE Noodt, 1965

Notobathynella williamsi [from Schminke]

© Copyright from Schminke 1973.

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• PARABATHYNELLIDAE Noodt, 1965.

  Type genus:

   Parabathynella Chappuis, 1926.

Introduction

Schminke (1982) diagnosed the family. At least 150 species are known, more than listed by Coineau (1996) or Camacho (2006). Eight of the more than 40 genera occur in Australia, some with several species in interstitial subterranean waters. Phylogeography, biogeography and cryptic species in Australia were reviewed by Guzik et al. (2008). Biodiversity and endemism of the family in Australia were covered by Humphreys (2008).

Diagnosis

Pleon as wide as thorax. Antennae directed posteriorly, without exopod. Labrum with border armed with teeth or fine setae. Mandible with short 1-articled palp, with 1 seta, and with row of spines on gnathobase. Maxilla 1, article 2 with 2 or 3 simple setae on outer distal margin. Thoracopods 1-7 with 1-articled exopod with setae on lower margin; or with multiarticulate exopod and setae on both margins. Pleopod 1 absent or uniramous, 1-articled. Pleotelson without pair of dorsal setae. Uropodal peduncle long.

General References

Abrams, K.M., Guzik, M.T., Cooper, S.J., Humphreys, W.F., King, R.A., Cho, J.-L & Austin, A.D. 2012. What lies beneath: Molecular phylogenetics and ancestral state reconstruction of the ancient subterranean Australian Parabathynellidae (Syncarida, Crustacea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 130-144

Camacho, A.I. 2006. An annotated checklist of the Syncarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the world. Zootaxa 1374: 1-54

Coineau, N. 1996. Sous-classe des Eumalacostracés (Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892) Super-ordre des syncarides (Syncarida Packard, 1885). pp. 897-954 in Forest, J. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Publié sous la direction de Pierre-P. Grassé. Tome VII. Crustacés. Fascicule 2. Généralités (suite) et systématique (Céphalocarides à Syncarides). Paris : Masson éditeur 1002 pp.

Guzik, M.T., Abrams, K.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., Cho, J. & Austin, A.D. 2008. Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 205-216

Humphreys, W.F. 2008. Rising from Down Under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 85-101

Noodt, W. 1965. Natürliches System und Biogeographie der Syncarida (Crustacea Malacostraca). Gewässer und Abwässer, Dusseldorf 37/38: 77-186

Schminke, H.K. 1982. Syncarida. pp. 233-237 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. New York : McGraw-Hill Vol. 2.

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