• Picripleuroxus Frey, D.G. 1993. Subdivision of the genus Pleuroxus (Anomopoda, Chydoridae) into subgenera worldwide. Hydrobiologia 262: 133-144 [133].

  Type species:

   Pleuroxus laevis G.O. Sars, 1862 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

History of changes

• Picripleuroxus denticulatus Birge, E.A. 1879. Notes on Cladocera. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters IV: 77-109 [96].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

'records of P. denticulatus from Australia probably refer to P. quasidenticulatus' (R. Shiel, pers. comm. 2015)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Pleuroxus laevis Sars, 1862.

History of changes

• Picripleuroxus quasidenticulatus Smirnov, N.N. 1996. Cladocera: the Chydorinae and Sayciinae (Chydoridae) of the world. Guide to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 11: 1-197 [31, figs 79-102].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

'Australia, Iraq, Argentina' (Smirnov 1996); Australian coastal localities; South Australia — Hunter's Creek, Hindmarsh Island (R. Shiel, pers. comm. 2015)

History of changes