Species Simocephalus exspinosus (De Geer, 1778)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monoculus exspinosus De Geer, C. 1778. Mémoires pour Servir á l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Pierre Hesselberg Vol. 7 i-xii, 950 pp., pls 1-49. [457].
• Daphnia australiensis Dana, J. 1853. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838–1842 under Charles Wilkes U.S.N. Vol. 14 Crustacea Part II. Philadelphia : C. Sherman Vol. 14 691-1618 pp. [Date published 1853: dated 1852] [1271].
• Simocephalus australiensis Sars, G.O. 1888. Additional notes on Australian Cladocera raised from dried mud. Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger 7: 1-74 [15-25, pl. 2: figs 1-5] (a set of drawings, and a better description of S. expinosus than were provided by De Geer in the original description).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. 1998. A revision of the cladoceran genus Simocephalus (Crustacea: Daphniidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Zoology) 64: 1-62
• Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. 2001. Cladocera: Anomopoda Daphniidae: genus Simocephalus. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 17: 1-130. [77] (comments that the exspinosus species group from Australia does not differ from the European S. exspinosus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Simocephalus exspinosus australiensis (Dana, 1852). —
  Dumont, H. 1983. Family Daphniidae: Simocephalus & Scapholeberis. pp. 97-106 in Smirnov, N.N. & Timms, B.V. Revision of the Australian Cladocera (Crustacea). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 1: 1-132 [104] (new combination)
• Simocephalus exspinosus (De Geer, 1778).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Found in all states

Ubiquitous throughout Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Sep-2013	Simocephalus exspinosus (De Geer, 1778)	04-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Russell Shiel (Uni_of_Ade)
09-Aug-2012		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
18-Aug-2010		18-Aug-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)