Billibathynella Cho 2005
Authors/Creators
- 1. Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106, Australia & Biologic Environmental Survey, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia liesel @ biologicenv. com. au; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0001 - 1458 - 6490 steph @ biologicenv. com. au; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 5089 - 7096 & Subterranean Research and Groundwater Ecology (SuRGE) Group, Trace and Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Laboratory, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth 6102, WA, Australia
- 2. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva. C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2. 28006 - Madrid, Spain mcnac 22 @ mncn. csic. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0596 - 7678
- 3. Biologic Environmental Survey, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia liesel @ biologicenv. com. au; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0001 - 1458 - 6490 steph @ biologicenv. com. au; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 5089 - 7096
- 4. Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia michelle. guzik @ adelaide. edu. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4947 - 9353 * Corresponding author: giulialittlepear @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0349 - 3803 & Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106, Australia
Description
Genus Billibathynella Cho, 2005
Type species Billibathynella humpreysi Cho, 2005
Other species B. wolframnoodti, B. ilgarariensis Hong and Cho, 2009
Amended diagnosis (after Hong & Cho, 2009)
Parabathynellidae body elongated and cylindrical. Antennula seven-segmented. Antenna seven-segmented. Labrum flat with numerous teeth (more than 20) on free margin. Molar process of mandible with more than 11 spines. Mandibular palp three times as long as wide. Maxilla four-segmented. Thoracopods I–VII with exopod of six or more segments. Male thoracopod VIII almost rectangular, longer than wide; protopod protruded at inner distal corner; epipod large, triangular, its distal part covering penial region of protopod; basipod without setae, inner margin of basipod drawn out into projection. Uropod with numerous spines on sympod; endopod with one or two distal spines, two plumose setae near base, and a protrusion on disto-outer margin, inner spines variable in number; exopod with numerous setae (more than 12). Anal operculum flat to slightly concave. Furcal rami elongated, with two large distal spines and numerous spines (more than 12) on inner margin.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Cho
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Bathynellacea
- Family
- Parabathynellidae
- Genus
- Billibathynella
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Billibathynella Cho, 2005 sec. Perina, Camacho, Morgan, Floeckner & Guzik, 2025
References
- Hong, S. J. & Cho, J. - L. (2009) Three new species of Billibathynella from Western Australia (Crustacea, Syncarida, Parabathynellidae). Journal of Natural History, 43 (37 - 38), 2365-2390. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930903108702