Genus Hexabathynella Schminke, 1972
- Hexabathynella Schminke, H.K. 1972. Hexabathynella halophila gen. n., sp. n. und die Frage nach der marinen Abkunft der Bathynellacea (Crustacea: Malacostraca). Marine Biology, Berlin 15: 282-287 [283].
Type species:
Parabathynella pauliani Delamare Deboutteville, 1953 by original designation.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast
- New South Wales: SE coastal
Distribution References
- Schminke, H.K. 1986. Syncarida. pp. 389-404 in Botosaneanu, L. & Stock, J.H. (eds). Stygofauna Mundi. A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna Inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Intersitial). Leiden : E.J. Brill & Dr. W. Backhuys
General References
Camacho, A.I. 2004. An overview of Hexabathynella (Crustacea, Syncarida, Parabathynellidae) with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 38: 1249-1261 (review, key to species)
Cho, J.-K. & Schminke, H.K. 2006. A phylogenetic review of the genus Hexabathynella Schminke, 1972 (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Bathynellacea): with a description of four new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147: 71-96 (phylogenetic review)