Kinnecaris eberhardi
Creators: name: Tang, Danny
name: Knott, Brenton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexanauplia
Harpacticoida
Parastenocarididae
Kinnecaris
Kinnecaris eberhardi

description: <i>Kinnecaris eberhardi</i> (Karanovic, 2005) <b>Material examined.</b> Carpark Cave (YN18), Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°33'08''S, 115°41'08''E): 7 &amp;female; (1 dissected and mounted on slide), 8 &amp;male; (1 dissected and mounted on slide) and 1 copepodid (AM P.78937–P.78939), 31 October, 1996; Gilgie Cave (YN27), Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°34'07''S, 115°41'18''E): 1 &amp;female;, 17 March, 1993; 1 &amp;male;, 28 August, 1994; 1 &amp;female; and 4 &amp;male;, 27 November, 1996; Orpheus Cave (YN256), Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°31'00''S, 115°40'10''E): 1 &amp;male;, 17 July, 1992; Twilight Cave (YN194), Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°34'05''S, 115°41'21''E): 1 &amp;female; and 1 &amp;male;, 9 October, 1992; 1 &amp;female;, 27 November, 1996; YN7 bore, Yanchep National Park, Western Australia (31°33'17''S, 115°41'13''E): 18 &amp;female;, 12 &amp;male; and 3 copepodids, 28 August, 1994; Edgecombe spring, Ellenbrook, Western Australia (31°47'39''S, 115°59'43''E): 1 &amp;female;, 4 November, 1995. <b>Remarks.</b> This species was established originally as <i>Parastenocaris eberhardi</i> by Karanovic (2005a) to accommodate specimens of both sexes collected from Strongs Cave and Kudjal Yolgah Cave located in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. Schminke (2008) recently transferred <i>P</i>. <i>eberhardi</i>, along with 14 other parastenocaridid species, into <i>Kinnecaris,</i> Jakobi, 1972. The discovery of this species in multiple caves and a single spring in the Gnangara Mound region, therefore, extends its known distribution northwards. Besides <i>K</i>. <i>eberhardi</i>, three other parastenocaridid members have been described, all from bore samples in Western Australia: <i>Kinnecaris solitaria</i> (Karanovic, 2004), <i>Parastenocaris kimberleyensis</i> Karanovic, 2005 and <i>P</i>. <i>jane</i> Karanovic, 2006. <i>Parastenocaris kimberleyensis</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>jane</i> occur north of the Tropic of Capricorn, whilst <i>K</i>. <i>eberhardi</i> and <i>K</i>. <i>solitaria</i> are distributed south of the tropics (Karanovic 2004a, 2005a, 2006).
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 60
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