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Genus Paralimnadia Sars, 1896 (sensu Rogers et al. 2012)

 

Excluded Taxa

Other Excluded

LIMNADIIDAE: Limnadia Brongniart, 1820 [Paralimnadia was formerly placed in Limnadia, but was re-erected to accommodate Australian limnadiids] — Brongniart, A. 1820. Mémoire sur le Limnadia. Nouveau genre des Crustacés. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 6: 83-93; Timms, B.V. 2016. A review of the Australian endemic clam shrimp, Paralimnadia Sars 1896 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa 4161(4): 451–508 [451]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Victorian Midlands (VM) ; NSW, NT: Great Sandy Desert (GSD) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), New England Tablelands (NET) ; NT, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

ID Keys

Timms (2016) privides two keys to this genus:
Key to species of Paralimnadia based on egg morphology p. 503
Key to male Paralimnadia p.504

 

Systematics

Rogers et al. (2012) resurrected and redefined the genus Paralimnadia

 

General References

Brehm, V. 1933. Phyllopoden, Mitteilungen von der Wallacea - Expedition Woltereck, 5. Zoologischer Anzeiger 104: 31-40 [31]

Brtek, J. 1997. Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the “Large Branchiopods” (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea. Prírodné Vedy 43: 3-66 [15] (listed as Eulimnadia)

Daday, E. 1914. Monographie systématique des Phyllopodes Conchostracés. Première partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 20: 39-330 [147]

Daday, E. 1925. Monographie systématique de Phyllopodes conchostracés. Troisième Partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 10 8: 143-184 10 figs [146] (Paralimnadia)

Naganawa, H. 2001. Current prospect of the large branchiopod fauna of East Asia. 3. Revised classification of the recent Spinicaudata. Aquabiology 23(3): 291-299 [299] (listed as Eulimnadia)

Straškraba, M. 1965. Taxonomical studies on Czechoslovak Conchostraca. II. Families Lynceidae and Cyzicidae. Vestník Ceskoslovenské Zoologické Spolecnosti 29: 205-214 [263]

Timms, B.V. 2012. An appraisal of the diversity and distribution of large Branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida, Notostraca) in Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 32(4): 615–623

Uéno, M. 1927. The freshwater Branchiopods of Japan. I. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University B 2: 259-311, pls XXI-XXX [281]

Webb, J.A. & Bell, G.D. 1979. A new species of Limnadia (Crustacea: Conchostraca) from the granite belt in southern Queensland and north New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 103: 237-245 [237-239, fig.1] (as Eulimnadia)

Weeks, S.C., Chapman, E.G., Rogers, D.C., Senyo, M. & Hoeh, W.R. 2009. Limnadiid clam shrimp distribution in Australia (Crustacea: Branchipoda: Spinicaudata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1781-1799

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023 LIMNADIIDAE Baird, 1849 04-Feb-2023 MODIFIED
26-Feb-2021 LIMNADIIDAE Baird, 1849 11-Jan-2023 MODIFIED
03-Sep-2018 SPINICAUDATA Linder, 1945 04-Feb-2023 MODIFIED
31-Oct-2016 Paralimnadia Sars, 1896 04-Feb-2023 MODIFIED
09-Aug-2012 09-Aug-2012 MODIFIED
18-Aug-2010 18-Aug-2010 MODIFIED
14-May-2010 MODIFIED