Genus Porcellidium Claus, 1860

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• Porcellidium Claus, C. 1860. Beiträge zur Kenntis der Entomostraken. Marburg Vol. 1 pp. 1-28. [6].

  Type species:

   Thyone viride Philippi, 1840 (= Porcellidium viride (Philippi, 1840)) by method unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [417].
• Thyone Philippi, A. 1840. Zoologische Bemerkungen (Fortsetzung). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 6: 181-195 pls III-IV [190] [preoccupied].
• Kioloaria Harris, V.A. 1994. New species belonging to the family Porcellidiidae (Harpacticoida: Copepoda) from Kioloa, New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 46: 303-340 [323] [junior subjective synonym of Porcellidium Claus, 1860].

  Type species:

   Kioloaria sesquimaculata Harris, 1994 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Walker-Smith, G.K. 2001. Porcellidium poorei, a new species of Porcellidiidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from seagrass in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and a review of the family. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21: 653-664 [655] (synonymised Acutiramus, Murramia, Kensakia, Kioloaria and Mucrorostrum with Porcellidium)
• Harris, V.A. 2014. Porcellidiidae of Australia (Harpacticoida, Copepoda). III. Synopsis of genera and species. Records of the Australian Museum 66(2): 167–196 [Date published 2 April 2014]

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PORCELLIDIIDAE: Porcellidium viride (Philippi, 1840) [newly characterised with designation by Harris (2014a) of a neotype from Scotland; misidentified Australian specimens described as Porcellidium rastellum Harris, 2014]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

ID Keys

See Harris (2014a: 66–70)

General References

Harris, V.A. 2014a. Porcellidiidae of Australia (Harpacticoida, Copepoda). I. A Reassessment of the European Species of Porcellidium. Records of the Australian Museum 66(2): 63–110

Harris, V.A. 2014b. Porcellidiidae of Australia (Harpacticoida, Copepoda). II. The importance of the male antennule in taxonomy. Records of the Australian Museum 66(2): 111–166

Harris, V.A. 2014c. Porcellidiidae of Australia (Harpacticoida, Copepoda). III. Synopsis of genera and species. Records of the Australian Museum 66(2): 167–196 [Date published 2 April 2014] [187]

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