A review of the Australian endemic clam shrimp, Paralimnadia Sars 1896 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata)
Author
Timms, Brian V.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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4
451
508
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4161.4.1
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Paralimnadia urukhai
(
Webb & Bell, 1979
)
Limnadia urukhai
Webb & Bell, 1979
: 239
–244;
Brtek, 1997
:58
(list)
Paralimandia urukhai
.—
Rogers
et al.
, 2012
: 838
(list)
Type
material
.
Holotype
:
Queensland
, near
Stanthorpe
,
Sow
and
Pig Rocks
,
26 March 1978
,
J.A. Webb
&
G.D. Bell
, QM W7499.
Diagnosis
.
Webb & Bell (1979)
state ‘bisexual, male and female carapaces similar, with evenly curved dorsal margins, large larval valves, and up to 10 growth lines, maximum size
6.7 mm
by
4.3 mm
; 15–16 pairs of legs; 2 segments in sixth endite (sic: endite V) on first pair of claspers almost equal in length; no spine on lower distal angle of telson.’ To this I add: cercopod divided midlength by a spine, and a few short cercopod setae or spines.
Remarks.
This species occurs in rock pools (pan gnammas) in the Granite Belt of southeast
Queensland
and adjacent northern
New
South
Wales
(
Fig. 4
). It has a wider distributon than reported by
Webb & Bell (1979)
and preliminary studies suggest it could be a species complex (
Schwentner
et al.
2015
). Molecular and accompanying morphological studies are in progress.