Eucrenonaspides
| Eucrenonaspides oinotheke | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Anaspidacea |
| Family: | Psammaspidae |
| Genus: | Eucrenonaspides Knott & Lake, 1980 |
| Species: | E. oinotheke |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucrenonaspides oinotheke Knott & Lake, 1980 | |
Eucrenonaspides oinotheke is a species of crustacean in the family Psammaspidae (Order Anaspidacea), endemic to Tasmania, the only species described in the genus Eucrenonaspides. It was described from a spring at 9 Payton Place, Devonport, Tasmania in 1980, making it "the first spring-dwelling syncarid recorded from the Australian region".[1] It is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.[2] A further undescribed species is known from south-western Tasmania.[3]
References
- ↑ Brenton Knott & Philip S. Lake (1980). "Eucrenonaspides oinotheke gen. et sp. n. (Psammaspididae) from Tasmania, and a new taxonomic scheme for Anaspidacea (Crustacea, Syncarida)". Zoologica Scripta 9 (1–4): 25–33. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00648.x.
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Eucrenonaspides oinotheke". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ↑ W. F. Ponder, S. A. Clarke, S. Eberhard & J. B. Studdert (2005). "A radiation of hydrobiid snails in the caves and streams at Precipitous Bluff, southwest Tasmania, Australia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae s.l.)" (PDF). Zootaxa 1074: 1–66.