Family HAMONDIIDAE Huys, 1990
Compiler and date details
31 May 2007 - G.K. Walker-Smith & K. Chilton-Lahey
- Hamondiidae Huys, R. 1990. A new harpacticoid copepod family collected from Australian sponges and the status of the subfamily Rhynchothalestrinae Lang. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 99: 51-115 [54].
Type genus:
Hamondia Huys, 1990.
Introduction
There are three genera and fours species contained in the family Hamondiidae. The one species recorded for Australia, Hamondia superba, has been found in association with a sponge, while the other species are predominantly phytal (Boxshall & Halsey 2004). Although Willen (2000) treated the Hamondiidae and the Ambunguipedidae as synonyms of the Rhyncothalestridae Lang, 1948, Boxshall and Halsey (2004) did not adopt this synonymy.
Diagnosis
see Huys (1990)
ID Keys
See Boxshall & Halsey (2004).
Diagnosis References
Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp. [301]
Huys, R. 1990. A new harpacticoid copepod family collected from Australian sponges and the status of the subfamily Rhynchothalestrinae Lang. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 99: 51-115 [54]
General References
Boxshall, G.A. & Halsey, S.H. 2004. An Introduction to Copepod Diversity. London : The Ray Society 966 pp.
Willen, E. 2000. Phylogeny of the Thalestridimorpha Lang, 1944 (Crustacea, Copepoda). Gottingen : Cuvillier Verlag pp. 1-223