Abstract
Four new species of Limnadopsis, L. bloodwoodensis sp. nov., L. paratatei sp. nov., L. brevirostris sp. nov. and L. centralensissp. nov., are described for Australia. Three of these were delineated in an earlier study based on an integrative taxonomicapproach. The fourth (L. centralensis sp. nov.) was not part of that study but can be distinguished from all other Limnadopsismorphologically. The morphological variation in L. tatei is described here in detail as L. paratatei sp. nov. and L. tatei closely resemble each other and have in earlier studies been grouped together as L. tatei.References
Baird, W. (1860) Description of a new entomostracous Crustacean, belonging to the order Phyllopoda, from South Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 392–393.
Brtek, J. (1997) Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the "Large Branchiopods" (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea, 43, 3–66.
Daday de Deés, E. (1925) Monogrphie sytématique des Phyllopodes Conchostracés. Troisième partie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, 10e série 8, 143–184 (463–504).
De Meester, L., Gómez, A., Okamura, B., Schwenk, K. (2002) The Monopolization Hypothesis and the dispersal-gene flow paradox in aquatic organisms. Acta Oecologica, 23, 121–135.
Ferrari, F.D. & Grygier, M.J. (2003) Comparative morphology among trunk limbs of Caenestheriella gifuensis and Leptestheria kawachiensis (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139, 547–564.
Henry, M. (1924) A monograph of the freshwater Entomostraca of New South Wales. IV. Phyllopoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49, 120–137.
Mayr, E. (1942) Systematics and the origin of species from the viewpoint of a zoologist. Columbia University Press, New York.
Novojilov N. (1958) Recueil d’articles sur les Phyllopodes Conchostracés. Annales du Service d‘information Géologique du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques, Geophysiques et Minéralogiques, 26, 5–134.
Olesen, J., Martin, J.W. & Roessler, E.W. (1996) External morphology of the male of Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird, 1859) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata), with a comparison of male claspers among the Conchostraca and Cladocera and its bearing on phylogeny of the 'bivalved' Branchiopoda. Zoologica Scripta, 25, 291–316.
Richter, S. & Timms, B.V. (2005) A list of the recent clam shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, including a description of a new species of Eocyzicus. Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 341–354.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Bastrop, R. & Richter, S. (2009) Phylogeny of Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) based on three molecular markers - An Australian origin for Limnadopsis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 53, 716–725.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. (2011) An integrative approach to species’ delineation incorporating different species’ concepts: a case study of Limnadopsis (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104, 575–599.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. (in press) Flying with the birds? - Recent large-area dispersal of four Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Ecology and Evolution, DOI 10.1002/ece3.265
Tamura K., Peterson D., Peterson N., Stecher G., Nei M. & Kumar, S. (2011) MEGA5: Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28, 2731–2739.
Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. (2002) A preliminary analysis of the conchostracans (Crustacea: Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata) of the middle Paroo catchment of the Australian arid-zone. Hydrobiologia, 486, 239–247
Timms, B.V. (2008) The ecology of episodic saline lakes in inland Eastern Australia as exemplified by a ten year study of the Rockwell-Wombah Lakes of the Paroo. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 129, 1–16.
Timms, B.V. (2009) A revision of the Australian endemic clam shrimp Limnadopsis Spencer & Hall (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 61, 49–72.
Timms, B.V. & Lindsay, S. (2011). Morphometrics of the resting eggs of the fairy shrimp Branchinella in Australia (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 133, 51–68
Weeks, S.C., Chapman, E.G., Rogers, D.C., Senyo, D.M. & Hoeh, W.R. (2009) Evolutionary transitions among dioecy, androdioecy and hermaphroditism in limnadiid clam shrimp (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, 1781–1799.
Wheeler Q.D. & Platnick, N.I. (2000) The phylogenetic species concept (sensu Wheeler and Platnick). In: Wheeler QD, Meier R, eds. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory. Columbia University Press, New York, 55–69.
Wiley E.O., Mayden R.L. (2000) The evolutionary species concept. In: Wheeler QD, Meier R, eds. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory. Columbia University Press, New York, 70–89.