TY  - GEN
A1  - Shearn, Rylan
A1  - Koenders, Annette
A1  - Halse, Stuart
A1  - Schön, Isa
A1  - Martens, Koen
T1  - A review of Bennelongia De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) species from eastern Australia with the description of three new species
T2  - European journal of taxonomy : 25
N2  - Australia is predicted to have a high number of currently undescribed ostracod taxa. The genus Bennelongia De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) occurs in Australia and New Zealand, and has recently shown potential for high speciosity, after the description of nine new species from Western Australia. Here, we focus on Bennelongia from eastern Australia, with the objectives of exploring likely habitats for undiscovered species, genetically characterising published morphological species and scanning classical species for cryptic diversity. Two traditional (morphological) species are confi rmed to be valid using molecular evidence (B. harpago De Deckker & McKenzie, 1981 and B. pinpi De Deckker, 1981), while three new species are described using both morphological and molecular evidence. Two of the new species belong to the B. barangaroo lineage (B. dedeckkeri sp. nov. and B. mckenziei sp. nov.), while the third is a member of the B. nimala lineage (B. regina sp. nov.). Another species was found to be genetically distinct, but is not formally described here owing to a lack of distinguishing morphological features from the existing species B. cuensis Martens et al., 2012. Trends in diversity and radiation of the genus are discussed, as well as implications these results have for the conservation of temporary pool microfauna and our understanding of Bennelongia’s evolutionary origin.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 25 
KW  - Evolution
KW  - cryptic species
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - Queensland
KW  - New South Wales
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32677
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-326777
SP  - 1
EP  - 35
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -