A New Species of Clam Shrimp Eulimnadia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) from Northern Inland New South Wales

Abstract

A new species of Eulimnadia is described from roadside table drains 51 km NNW of Moree, northwestern NSW. It is an androdioecious species with the characteristic spiniform projection at the ventroposterior angle of the telson, the cercopod divided into two unequal sections by a spine and only eight antennomeres in each flagellum of the second antenna. The egg, its most characteristic feature, is cylindrical and somewhat distorted by an incomplete second band of ridges and grooves, making it the second Australian species with a cylindrical egg.