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 text 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 ).