Mesocyclops brooksi Pesce, De Laurentiis &amp; Humphreys 1996
Creators: name: Tang, Danny
name: Knott, Brenton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexanauplia
Cyclopoida
Cyclopidae
Mesocyclops
Mesocyclops brooksi

description: <i>Mesocyclops brooksi</i> Pesce, De Laurentiis &amp; Humphreys, 1996 <b>Material examined.</b> Lot 51 Cave (YN 555), Yanchep, Western Australia (31°34'31''S, 115°42'10''E): 1 &amp;female;, 22 September, 2003; 4 &amp;female;, 6 October, 2004; 22 &amp;female; (1 dissected and mounted on slide), 7 &amp;male; and 2 copepodids, 8 November, 2005; Spillway Cave (YN565), Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°32'41''S, 115°40'37''E): 1 &amp;female;, 8 November, 2005; pool at Loch M c Ness, Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°32'57''S, 115°40'49''E): 6 &amp;female; (AM P.78916), 1 August, 2007; 9 &amp;female;, 4 &amp;male; and 3 copepodids, 22 August, 2007. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Mesocyclops brooksi</i> was established by Pesce <i>et al</i>. (1996) to accommodate several specimens collected from Bobs Well in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This species was subsequently reported from additional well sites in the Pilbara (De Laurentiis <i>et al</i>. 1999; Ho&amp;lstrok;yṅska &amp; Brown 2003; Karanovic 2006) and Murchison regions (Karanovic 2004a), as well as from many epigean localities in the south-west of Western Australia (Halse <i>et al</i>. 2000 a, 2002a; Ho&amp;lstrok;yṅska &amp; Brown <i>loc</i>. <i>cit</i>.; Cale <i>et al</i>. 2004; Pinder <i>et al</i>. 2004) and from one site in Queensland (Ho&amp;lstrok;yṅska &amp; Brown <i>loc</i>. <i>cit</i>.).
description: Published as part of <i>Tang, Danny &amp; Knott, Brenton, 2009, Freshwater cyclopoids and harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Gnangara Mound region of Western Australia, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 2029</i> on page 32
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