Branchinella
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| Branchinella sp. from a rice paddy in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan | |
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| Genus: | Branchinella Sayce, 1903
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Richters, 1976 [1]
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Branchinella is a genus of crustaceans in the family Thamnocephalidae. This fairy shrimp genus is found across many parts of the world, but especially western Australia and southern Africa.[2]
Several species have small ranges and are threatened by habitat destruction. For example, is only known from south Northern Territory and southwest Queensland,[3] but it has been extirpated from the Uluru region due to pollution from urine and faeces of tourists.[4]
Selected species[]
Branchinella includes the following species:[5][6][7]
- Belk & Sissom, 1992
- Linder, 1941
- Branchinella alachua Dexter, 1953
- Branchinella apophysata Linder, 1941
- Geddes, 1981
- (Richters, 1876)
- Branchinella basispina Geddes, 1981
- Geddes, 1981
- (Daday, 1910)
- Linder, 1941
- Timms, 2003[2]
- Branchinella denticulata Linder, 1941
- (Schwartz, 1917)
- Henry, 1924
- Timms, 2003[2]
- (Qadri & Baqai, 1956)
- Geddes, 1981
- Timms, 2003[2]
- (Ishikawa, 1895)
- Geddes, 1981
- Branchinella lithaca (Creaser, 1940)
- Wolf, 1911
- Linder, 1941
- Raj, 1951
- Timms, 2005[1]
- Rœn, 1952
- Timms, 2008[1]
- Timms, 2003[2]
- Linder, 1941
- Dakin, 1914
- (Barnard, 1924)
- Branchinella ornata Daday, 1910
- Timms, 2008[1]
- Timms, 2008[1]
- Geddes, 1981
- Henry, 1924
- Branchinella simplex Linder, 1941
- Branchinella spinosa (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
- Sissom, 1976
- Sanoamuang, Saengphan & Murugan, 2002[8]
- Timms, 2008[1]
- Branchinella wellardi Milner, 1929
Some related fairy shrimp, such as , were formerly placed in Branchinella.
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f Brian V. Timms (2008). "Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea, Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, with descriptions of new species" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 24 (3): 289–306. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.24(3).2008.267-306.
- ^ a b c d e Brian V. Timms (2003). "The fairy shrimp genus Branchinella Sayce (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, including a description of four new species". Hydrobiologia. 486 (1): 71–89. doi:10.1023/A:1021330230369. S2CID 38120045.
- ^ "Species Branchinella latzi Geddes, 1981". Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ Tlozek, E. (29 September 2009). "Tourist poo 'killed rare shrimp' on Uluru". ABC News. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ Denton Belk; Ján Brtek (1995). D. Belk, H. J. Dumont & G. Maier (ed.). "Checklist of the Anostraca". Hydrobiologia. 298 (1–3): 315–353. doi:10.1007/BF00033826. S2CID 42896952.
- ^ Denton Belk; Ján Brtek (1997). M. A. Simovich, C. Sassaman & D. Belk (ed.). "Supplement to "Checklist of the Anostraca"". Hydrobiologia. 359 (1–3): 243–245. doi:10.1023/A:1003172516989. S2CID 1350110.
- ^ D. Christopher Rogers, Shusen Shu & Junxing Yang (2013). "The identity of Branchinella yunnanensis Shen, 1949, with a brief review of the subgenus Branchinellites (Branchiopoda: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 33 (4): 576–581. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002155.
- ^ La-Orsri Sanoamuang; Nukul Saengphan; Gopal Murugan (2002). A. M. Maeda-Martínez; B. V. Timms; D. C. Rogers; F. A. Abreu-Grobois; G. Murugan (eds.). "First record of the family Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Southeast Asia and description of a new species of Branchinella". Hydrobiologia. 486 (1): 63–69. doi:10.1023/A:1021378113530. S2CID 22437794.
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