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Issue: Vol. 4291 No. 1: 11 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.5
Page range: 81–98
Abstract views: 127
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A revision of the clam shrimp Australimnadia Timms and Schwentner, 2012 (Crustacea: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) with two new species from Western Australia

Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW, 2010 and Centre for Ecosystem Science, and School of Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
Universität Rostock, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany. Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Naturkunde, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Crustacea Australimnadia gigantea A. multifasciata n. sp. A. torqueova n. sp. Limnadia grobbeni egg morphology telson conservation status

Abstract

The original type species of Australimnadia is made a junior synonym of A. grobbeni, originally described as Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925. A second species of Australimnadia is described from Onslow, Western Australia; it differs in having unique egg morphology and is distinct in many morphological characters, including those of the telson and cercopod, but also of the thoracopods. Its validity is confirmed by molecular differences between the two species in COI and EF1α. A third species from southwestern Western Australia is separated morphologically by unique spination of the telson and setation of the cercopod, and by its egg morphology.

 

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