Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 60

Morphology of the Resting Eggs of the Australian endemic Fairy Shrimp Australobranchipus (Branchiopoda: Anostraca: Branchipodidae): Similarities and differences from other anostracans

Citation

Timms, B.V. 2018: Morphology of the Resting Eggs of the Australian endemic Fairy Shrimp Australobranchipus (Branchiopoda: Anostraca: Branchipododae): Similarities and differences from other anostracans. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 60: 383–387. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-04

Accepted

19 September 2017.

Published online

18 April 2018

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-04

Keywords

Australobranchipus, Branchiopoda, morphology, Fairy Shrimp

Abstract 

Eggs in large Branchiopoda are often diagnostic of species and may show some phyletic relationships. Those of the two species of Australobranchipus are described and are easily separable from each other and are particularly distinctive among Australian anostracans, all unrelated. Within its family, the Branchiopodidae however, there is some similarity to two African genera, but not Eurasian species, indicative perhaps of a gondwanan connection.