Under Construction

Engaeus yabbimunna Horwitz 1994

Keith A. Crandall
Containing group: Engaeus

Types

Holotype, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne J3444 (male); allotype, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne J34475 (berried female); paratypes, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston 10:11235 (berried female), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart G3529 (male).

Type Locality

Burnie Park, from burrow in seepage area in gully of Shorewell Creek below Oldacre Falls.

Distribution

The species is locally distributed in the Burnie area on Shorewell Creek, Romaine Creek, and Cooee Creek.

Habitat

E. yabbimunna occupies burrows in the flood beds of creeks dominated by tree ferns, in burrows next to creeks, in seepages dominated by tea tree and with a ground cover of ferns, and well above creeks in burrows on the creek bank or slopes of the gully. Soils in these habitats ranged from brown to orange-red clay loams, or contained a high level of organic matter. Vegetation was typical of wet gullies, with Acacia melanoxylon dominant in the over-story. Burrow structure depended on the type of habitat and depth to water table and seemed typical of other members of this genus.

References

Horwitz, P. 1994. A new species of the freshwater crayfish genus Engaeus Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from north-western Tasmania. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 54(2): 439-445.

About This Page
Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

Page: Tree of Life Engaeus yabbimunna Horwitz 1994. Authored by Keith A. Crandall. The TEXT of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 3.0. Note that images and other media featured on this page are each governed by their own license, and they may or may not be available for reuse. Click on an image or a media link to access the media data window, which provides the relevant licensing information. For the general terms and conditions of ToL material reuse and redistribution, please see the Tree of Life Copyright Policies.

Citing this page:

Crandall, Keith A. 2001. Engaeus yabbimunna Horwitz 1994. Version 01 January 2001 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Engaeus_yabbimunna/7854/2001.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

edit this page
close box

This page is a Tree of Life Leaf Page.

Each ToL leaf page provides a synopsis of the characteristics of a group of organisms representing a leaf at the tip of the Tree of Life. The major distinction between a leaf and a branch of the Tree of Life is that a leaf cannot generally be further subdivided into subgroups representing distinct genetic lineages.

For a more detailed explanation of the different ToL page types, have a look at the Structure of the Tree of Life page.

close box

Engaeus yabbimunna

Page Content

articles & notes

collections

people

Explore Other Groups

random page

  go to the Tree of Life home page
top