Limnadopsis brunneus Spencer & Hall, 1896

Richter, Stefan & Timms, Brian V., 2005, A List of the Recent Clam Shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, Including a Description of a New Species of Eocyzicus, Records of the Australian Museum 57 (3), pp. 341-354 : 349

Limnadopsis brunneus Spencer & Hall, 1896

Limnadopsis brunneus Spencer & Hall, 1896: 243 , pl. 23, figs. 28–29; Sayce, 1903: 250; Wolf, 1911: 254 (list); Dakin, 1914: 295 (list); Henry, 1924: 122 (list), 132 (key); Brtek, 1997: 58 (list).

Limnadiopsis brunneus .– Daday, 1925: 183–184, fig. 124 (misspelling of the genus name); Schneider & Sissom, 1982: 72–73 (misspelling of the genus name).

Type material. None designated.

Remarks. Specimens from the Mitchell Plateau (28 males, 32♀♀) have an “average number of carapace lines of 18 in both sexes” according to Schneider & Sissom (1982). This is very different from the 30 to 34 described by Spencer & Hall (1896), especially considering the similar size of the specimens from the two localities. Although the exact number of growth lines is certainly not a character to distinguish species ( Belk, 1989), such a large difference makes it questionable that the specimens from the Mitchell Plateau belong to L. brunneus . The number of pairs of legs is unknown in the Darwin specimens (compare with the description by Spencer & Hall [1896]). Given this, we do not know the basis for Henry (1924: 132) giving 26 pairs of legs for L. brunneus .

Distribution. Knuckey’s Lagoon, near Darwin (Northern Territory);?Mitchell Plateau (Western Australia).