Nine new species of Bennelongia De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Western Australia, with the description of a new subfamily
Author
Martens, Koen
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium (corresponding author) E-mail: koen. martens @ naturalsciences. be & University of Ghent, Department of Biology, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium
Author
Halse, Stuart
Bennelongia Environmental Consultants, 5 Bishop Street, Jolimont WA 6014, Australia
Author
Schön, Isa
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium (corresponding author) E-mail: koen. martens @ naturalsciences. be & University of Hasselt, Research Group Zoology, Agoralaan Building D, B- 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2012
2012-03-07
8
1
56
journal article
21831
10.5852/ejt.2012.8
6cfac628-b07b-421d-9102-f47c8306fd58
2118-9773
3857965
A8804F82-A49A-481E-BB04-2CB4D004EB01
Bennelongia pinpi
- lineage
Remarks
Bennelongia pinpi
De Deckker, 1981
was described from Pine Tree Creek Lagoon in
Queensland
and is characterized by a very pronounced antero-ventral beak-like expansion in the LV, more so than in any other species of
Bennelongia
, and also by the absence of an antero-ventral lapel on the RV and by the presence of an antero-ventral expansion of the RV.
The following two species are allocated to this species group based on the latter two features, as the beak on the LV is not particularly large in either of them. An additional character might be the heavily sclerotized dorsal margins of the A
1 in
this species group (
Figure 24F
).