Large Grey Pilbara Slater
Buddelundia
FP-11799 (SJ 16)
Discoverer: S. Judd (2023)
Fauna Portal species: 11799
Buddelundia FP-11799 female, lateral (HBI N26867-10; 135 km W Tom Price, Western Australia)
Image: A. Greenhill (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6836Diagnosis
Very large animal, greyish-white in colour and sometimes with a brownish tinge as shown in photograph. Frontal shield divided into upper and lower sections by a transverse groove. Posterior margin of frontal shield well defined and slightly raised from vertex of head. Interlocking structures on pereonite 1 and 2 as in Figs 6841 and 6842. Lateral posterior border of pereonite 1 only slightly angled backward, almost straight in lateral view. Distal margin of pereonite 1 thickened without sulcus arcuatus. Pereonite 2 with acute tooth-like lobe and well-developed structures on ventral side of pereonites 6 and 7 (see photograph).
This species is very similar to Buddelundia FP-11811 (SJ 63) and can be determined by differences in the interlocking structures on the pereonites.
Most specimens of this species have been identified morphologically. The current distribution shows two distinct populations. COI sequences are currently only from the western populations of this species and pending a molecular characterisation of the eastern population, that may turn out to be a different, cryptic species.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
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