Two new species of Branchinella (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) and a reappraisal of the B. nichollsi group

Title: Two new species of Branchinella (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) and a reappraisal of the B. nichollsi group
Creator: Timms, Brian V.
Relation: Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Vol. 50, no. 2, p. 441-452
Publisher: Queensland Museum
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: Branchinella clandestina sp. nov. is described from the Queensland Paroo and B. mcraei sp.nov. from the Pilbara in Western Australia. Both have a simple frontal appendage consisting of a trunk and two branches, but differ from each other and other similar species such as B. affinis Linder, B. longirostris Wolf and B. latzi Geddes by many features. These two species increase the number of described Australian Branchinella to 31 species. The raising of B. nichollsi hattahensis Geddes and B. nichollsi buchananensis Geddes, both present in the Paroo catchment, to species status is confirmed with lectotypes designated and species descriptions provided. Similarities and differences between B. nichollsi, B. hattahensis and B. buchananensis are discussed.
Subject: Anostraca; Branchinella; new species; Thamnocephalidae
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24638
Identifier: uon:591
Identifier: ISSN:0079-8835
Language: eng
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