Fig. 5 in Paralbunea dayriti
Author
Timms, Brian V.
Honorary Research Associate, Australian Museum, 10 William St, Sydney, 2010 and Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia. * Correspondence: E-mail: brian. timms @ unsw. edu. au (Timms)
brian.timms@unsw.edu.au
Author
Rogers, D. Christopher
Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047 - 3759, USA. E-mail: Branchiopod @ gmail. com (Rogers)
Branchiopod@gmail.com
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Zoological Studies
2020
Zool. Stud.
2020-08-05
59
38
1
10
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12822326
journal article
10.6620/ZS.2020.59-38
1810-522X
PMC7736776
33335588
12822538
Paralimnadia datsonae
comb. nov.
=
Eulimnadia datsonae
Timms, 2015: 445–447
,
Figs. 4
–5
Comments
: This species lacks a true spiniform subcercopodal process, instead having a triangular projection covered with denticulae. Furthermore, the cercopod spine is placed at about 35% of the cercopod length, there are 11 antennomeres on each flagellum, mating is in line and sex ratios are approximately 1:1 (
Table 1
), all
Paralimnadia
characteristics. In addition, there is a robust hamulus projecting at a right angle from the endite corm IV, with its length 0.5x the apical club diameter (
Fig. 4D
in
Timms 2016b
). Specimens from Jurien Bay, WA, are slightly different (BVT unpublished data). Significantly, there is variation in the ventroposterior area of the telson, so that it varies from rounded to somewhat triangular and always without denticles, there are 12 antennomeres on each flagellum and the hamulus is even more protruding and is slightly curved distally. The cercopod setae are absent, and the spine is small, placed midlength, and in females the cercopod is apparently geniculated. It is assumed that the nearly inerm geniculate cercopod is aberrant in this population.