Order SPELAEOGRIPHACEA Gordon, 1957


Compiler and date details

30 April 2005 - Gary C.B. Poore

Introduction

The peracarid crustacean order Spelaeogriphacea was erected on the basis of a single species, Spelaeogriphus lepidops Gordon, 1957, from a freshwater stream in a cave on Table Mountain, South Africa (Gordon 1957). The diagnosis is modified from Brusca & Brusca (1990).

Three monotypic extant genera have been been described in one family, Spelaeogriphidae, one each from South Africa, Brazil (Pires 1987), and Australia. All were diagnosed and their systematic and biogeographic relationships discussed by Poore & Humphreys (1998). Another undescribed species is known from aquifers in Western Australia. Two fossil species, one from the Jurassic of China and the other from the Carboniferous of Canada, are known (Shen et al. 1998)

Gutu (1998) placed the Spelaeogriphacea with one of the families of Mictacea in a new peracarid order, Cosinzeneacea, but this proposal has not been adopted by other authors. Shen et al. (1998) considered the possibility that the order may be paraphyletic on the basis of a cladistic analysis.

Database Notes

Updated by Gary C.B. Poore, 30 April 2005.

 

Diagnosis

Carapace short, fused with thoracomere 1; one pair of maxillipeds; pereopods 1–7 simple, biramous; exopods on pereopods 1–3 setose, on pereopods 4–7 gill-like; tailfan well developed; eyestalk present, but eyes nonfunctional or absent.

 

General References

Brusca, R.C. & Brusca, G.J. 1990. Invertebrates. Sunderland, Massachusetts : Sinauer Associates Inc. 922 pp.

Gordon, I. 1957. Spelaeogriphus, a new cavernicolous crustacean from South Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 5: 31-47

Gutu, M. 1998. Spelaeogriphacea and Mictacea (partim) suborders of a new order, Cosinzeneacea (Crustacea, Peracarida). Travaux du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 40: 121-129

Pires, A.M.S. 1987. Potiicoara brasiliensis: a new genus and species of Spelaeogriphacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Brazil with a phylogenetic analysis of the Peracarida. Journal of Natural History 21: 225-238

Poore, G.C.B. & Humphreys, W.F. 1998. First record of Spelaeogriphacea from Australasia: a new genus and species from an aquifer in the arid Pilbara of Western Australia. Crustaceana 71: 721-742

Shen, Y.-b, Taylor, R.S. & Schram, F.R. 1998. A new spelaeogriphacean (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Upper Jurassic of China. Contributions to Zoology 68: 19-35

 

History of changes

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Family SPELAEOGRIPHIDAE Gordon, 1957

Introduction

This, the only family in the Order, comprises three monotypic genera.

 

Diagnosis

Carapace short, fused with thoracomere 1; one pair of maxillipeds; pereopods 1-7 simple, biramous, with short exopods; exopods on pereopods 1-3 setose, on pereopods 4-7 gill-like; tailfan well developed; eyestalk present, but eyes nonfunctional or absent.

 

General References

Gordon, I. 1957. Spelaeogriphus, a new cavernicolous crustacean from South Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 5: 31-47

 

History of changes

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Genus Mangkurtu Poore & Humphreys, 1998

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

History of changes

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Species Mangkurtu kutjarra Poore & Humphreys, 2003

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Underground water.

 

History of changes

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Species Mangkurtu mityula Poore & Humphreys, 1998

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Aquifer.

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)