Freshwater Ostracoda from north-western Australia

Abstract

Freshwater ostracodes from the Northern Territory and the Kimberleys, Western Australia, are described. They comprise 17 species of which 6 are new: Cyprinotus kimberleyensis, Zsocypris williamsi, "Strandesia" dorsoviridis, Candonocypris Jitzroyi, Cypretta baylyi, and Cypretta lutea. The ostracodes include the first records from Australia of Isocypris, Strandesia, and Heinicypris, and exhibit affinities with those of eastern Australia, Indonesia, and South Africa.

A review of systematics, distribution and ecology of tropical freshwater zooplankton

“…Subsequent systematic work referred to collections from tropical regions (e.g. Lindberg, 1954 ;Russell, 1957Russell, , 1961Brehm, 1959Brehm, ,1960McKenzie, 1966) . Others described northern ranges of southern Australian taxa (e .g .…”

Notes on the ecology and distribution of non-marine ostracods in Australia

“…Morton & Bayly (1977), in their study of the ecology of some temporary freshwater pools in Victoria, discussed the presence of ostracods in such habitats and described the seasonality of some of the ostracod species. The taxonomic descriptions of freshwater ostracods from north-western Australia by McKenzie (1966a), supplemented by the physicochemical data of Williams & Buckney (1976) and additional remarks of Williams (1979), for the same localities from which the ostracods had been originally collected, are of interest. Similarly, the descriptions of ostracods from mainly athalassic saline waters from Western Australia and South Australia by McKenzie (1978), supplemented by the same work of Williams & Buckney (1976) for the ostracod localities, are informative on salinity tolerance of some species.…”

Three interesting Cyprididae (Ostracoda) from Western Australia

“…Beside the new species, I propose here to include the following two species in the genus Riocypris: Candonocypris fitzroyi McKenzie, 1966 and Eucypris fontana Gra!, 1931. The first species was collected from the Fitzroy River in Western Australia (McKenzie, 1966b). The reason why McKenzie (I 966b) included this species into the genus Candono(Tpris Sars, 1896, is not clear, as the main diagnostic character of the genus is the presence of two setae on the penultimate segment of the cleaning leg, but this was not described for C. fitzroyi.…”

“…Cyprinotus carinatus and C. fuscus were described from south-eastern Australia (King 1855;Henry, 1919); C. cingalensis was originally described from Sri Lanka by Brady (1886a) but later recorded throughout Southeast Asia and found by Sars (1889) in Queensland. Cyprinotus kimberleyensis and C. dahli were both described from north-western Australia (Sars 1896;McKenzie 1966b). Cyprinotus kimberleyensis was also recorded from Japan (Okubo 1974).…”

“…King (1855) first recorded this ostracod group in Australia but the most significant contributions to our recent knowledge of the living Cyprididae from this continent have been made by the late Dr Ken McKenzie and Professor Patrick De Deckker (McKenzie 1966a, 1966b, 1978De Deckker 1974, 1976, 1979a, 1979b, 1981a, 1981b, 1981c, 1982a, 1982b, 1982c. Most recently Halse and McRae (2004), Martens et a1.…”