Macroinvertebrates of watercourses in the Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia

An arid zone awash with diversity: patterns in the distribution of aquatic invertebrates in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

“…This is comparable with the 346 species in these faunal groups collected in the Pilbara, given that protozoans were not well sampled in the Pilbara survey. Madden et al (2002), and Marshall et al (2006) collected about 170 macroinvertebrate taxa (mostly identified to genus) from about 90 wetlands in the southern and eastern LEB. The number of macroinvertebrate species is likely to be at least twice the number of genera (macroinvertebrate species to genus ratios were 2 to 2.5 in the Pilbara and other large Western Australian surveys mentioned above), so the regional aquatic invertebrate fauna is likely to be over 800 species, especially since ostracods were not identified.…”