Genus Ectocyclops Brady, 1904

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ectocyclops Brady, G.S. 1904. On Entomostraca collected in Natal by Mr. James Gibson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(2): 121-128 [124].

  Type species:

   Ectocyclops rubescens Brady, 1904 by monotypy.
• Leptocyclops Sars, G.O. 1914. Copepoda Cyclopoida. In, An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum Vol. 6. [70].
• Platycyclops Sars, G.O. 1914. Copepoda Cyclopoida. In, An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum Vol. 6. [76].

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: W plateau
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Palaearctic Region

• United Kingdom
  • England

Diagnosis

Body strongly depressed dorsoventrally, without marked constriction between prosome and urosome. CR short, no more than about 3 times as long as wide, frequently heavily ornamented with rows of spinules. A1 of female short, 8-11 segments. A2 with all 4 segments short and stout. Mx short and compressed, with row of large spinules along border between coxa and basis and another transverse row on ventral surface of precoxa. Mxp 3-segmented due to fusion of last 2 segments; 2 largest of 4 setae on terminal segment confluent with that segment (see Fig. 7g). P1-4 with both rami 3-segmented; coxa and basis of P1 bearing strong, thick seta; those pf P2-4 wide and evenly curved, sometimes partially bilobed. Seta at medial corner of coxa long on P1, short on P2-4. In all swimming legs, Ri1 and Ri2 without spiniform process on outer distal corner. P1Ri2 with one seta, P2-4 with 2 setae on this segment. P4Ri3 with 2 terminal spines. Spine formula 3443; complete armature of swimming legs as follows: (see Morton 1990: 670) P5 without distinctly articulated segment, reprsented only by 3 elements arising directly from 1st urosomal somite.

 

Diagnosis References

Brady, G.S. 1904. On Entomostraca collected in Natal by Mr. James Gibson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(2): 121-128 [124]

Morton, D.W. 1990. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida). II. Eucyclops Claus and Ectocyclops Brady. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 41: 657-675 [670]

 

General References

Morton, D.W. 1990. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida). II. Eucyclops Claus and Ectocyclops Brady. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 41: 657-675 [670]

 

History of changes

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