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Species Micraspides calmani Nicholls, 1931

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Species Micraspides calmani Nicholls, 1931

  • Micraspides calmani Nicholls, G.E. 1931. Micraspides calmani, a new syncaridan from the west coast of Tasmania. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 37: 473-488, pls 31-32 [476].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, sphagnum hollow on side of Mt Sedgewick (as Mt Lyell), on Queenstown–Lake Margaret Narrow gauge railway line, TAS.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Western TAS only.


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.
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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Tas: King (KIN), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, swamp.

Extra Ecological Information

Button grass swamp, crayfish burrows, "Pholeteros".

 

General References

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

Nicholls, G.E. 1947. On the Tasmanian Syncarida. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 2: 9-16 (ecology, distribution)

Nicholls, G.E. & Spargo, D. 1932. Notes on the internal anatomy of the Anaspidacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 10: 153-166 (anatomy)

Swain, R., Allbrook, P. & Lake, P.S. 1977. The aquatic invertebrate fauna of western Tasmania. pp. 81-100 in Kirkpatrick, J. & Banks, M. (eds). Landscape and Man. Hobart : Royal Society of Tasmania (distribution)

Williams, W.D. 1965. Ecological notes on the Tasmanian Syncarida (Crustacea: Malacostraca), with a description of a new species of Anaspides. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie 50: 95-126 (ecology, distribution)

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)