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Species Allanaspides hickmani Swain, Wilson & Ong, 1971

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Species Allanaspides hickmani Swain, Wilson & Ong, 1971

  • Allanaspides hickmani Swain, R., Wilson, I.S. & Ong, J.E. 1971. A new species of Allanaspides from south-western Tasmania. Crustaceana 21: 196- 202 [196].
    Type data:
     Holotype AM P17629 ♂, button-grass plain, 1 km E of McPartlan Pass, TAS.
    Paratype(s) AM P17630 (as allotype); TMH G1301–2; QVM 1970.10.4–5.

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, swamp.

Extra Ecological Information

Button-grass swamp, "Pholeteros" crayfish burrows.

 

General References

Lake, P.S. 1977. Pholoteros—the faunal assemblage found in crayfish burrows. Australian Society for Limnology Newsletter 15(1): 57-60 (ecology)

Swain, R. & Lake, P.S. 1974. The fenestra dorsalis of Allanaspides (Crustacea: Syncarida) - cytological changes in response to elevated NaCl levels. Proceedings of 8th International Congress of Electron Microscopy 2: 246-247 (physiology)

Williams, W.D. 1974. Freshwater Crustacea. pp. 63-112 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp. (ecology, distribution)