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FAMILY GENUS / SPECIES HABITAT LOCALITY
PHYLUM CLASS ORDER/
COMMON
NAME
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Cape Range
Anchialine groundwater. The phallodriline worms
were found in two sites within the Bundera
Limestone: an artificial well and small karst
window.
Aktedrilus parvithecatus
Pectinodrilus ningaloo
Naididae (formerly
known as
Tubificidae)
ANNELIDA Clitellata Haplotaxida
(earthworms and
aquaworms)
Bundera Sinkhole
Spionidae Prionospio thalanji The genus Prionospio is dominated by marine
species, with a few estuarine representatives; none
are known from truly freshwater or anchialine
habitats. Thus, Prionospio thalanji is apparently a
sister taxon to a marine species, although it not
known which one.
P. thalanji is apparently the first spionid
polychaete recorded from cave environments.
Spionids are rare in freshwater environments,
although two species of Boccardia are known
from coastal dune freshwater lakes in southeastern
Australia and Orthoprionospio cirriformia
is widespread in areas of reduced salinity in
south-eastern Australia.
Polychaetae
(annelid worm)
Cape Range
S. centroamericana ‑ Bundera Sinkhole as well as
from small shallow karst windows—Tantabiddi
Rockholes, Wobiri Rockhole, C-414 and C-506.
Specimens were also obtained from Javis Well
C-362, a deep pastoral well.
T. (Ehlersia) cf. broomensis –in the deep well,
Javis Well.
In contrast to the other polychaete, Prionospio
thalanji, both species were characterized
as ‘normal’ marine forms, so are also
Aciculata Syllidae Sphaerosyllis
centroamericana
Typosyllis (Ehlersia) cf.
broomensis
opportunistically stygal.
Bundera Sinkhole
Iravadiidae Iravadia sp. The brackish part of Bundera Sinkhole, where it is
exposed to full sunlight. This species belongs to a
genus that is otherwise estuarine.
Mollusca Gastropoda
(snails, slugs)
** Congeneric with marine troglobites of the Atlantic
# The stygofauna of Cape Range Peninsula includes the sympatric occurrence of a number of taxa with disjunct Tethyan distributions
Genera in bold are endemic to the area, as are all the species with the exception of some of the copepod species