Extraordinary morphological changes in valve morphology during the ontogeny of several species of the Australian ostracod genus Bennelongia (Crustacea, Ostracoda)
Author
Deckker, Patrick De
Author
Martens, Koen
9272757B-A9E5-4C94-B28D-F5EFF32AADC7
urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 9272757 B-A 9 E 5 - 4 C 94 - B 28 D-F 5 EFF 32 AADC 7 & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & University of Ghent, Department of Biology, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2013
2013-01-31
36
1
37
journal article
22336
10.5852/ejt.2013.36
13fb5aaa-91be-4204-90f0-93a492637789
2118-9773
3806624
B54F52A3-823F-49ED-978C-FDF1AEE3D201
Genus
Bennelongia
De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981
Remarks
The following 6 species clearly belong to 5 separate lineages within the genus, and as such form a good representation of juvenile morphologies within the genus. For one species (
B. gwelupensis
), juveniles of two populations could be compared.
Bennelongia dedeckkeri
from
Queensland
and
B.
cf.
barangaroo
nov. sp. are so closely related and show such similarity in ontogeny that they are discussed together. They might in fact be the same species, but this will be discussed elsewhere.