Fortescue Marsh Orange-tailed Slater
Buddelundia
FP-11800 (SJ 49FM)
Discoverer: S. Judd (2023)
Fauna Portal species: 11800
Buddelundia FP-11800 male, lateral (HBI N30656-1; 75 km E Mujina, Western Australia)
Image: A. Greenhill (2023)
Fauna Portal Image No. 6866Diagnosis
Small highly convex animal. Eye large (>10 ommatidia) for the overall size of species. Frontal shield with divided into upper and lower sections by a transverse groove but interrupted in the middle. Posterior margin of margin of frontal shield indistinct and flattened in the central part. First pereonite highly convex, thickened at the distal margin with wide and deep sulcus arcuatus. Interlocking structures present on first two pereonal epimera. Distal part of telson narrower and about half the length of the proximal part. Uropods orange, short and wide.
The morphological work required to determine species is at a preliminary stage and consequently this species can only be diagnosed by molecular methods (COI barcoding). Genetically different species with similar morphology are found in other areas of the Pilbara region.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
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