Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Alachua Fairy Shrimp, Peninsula Fairy Shrimp
Description
Habitat
Biome: Freshwater
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Class:
Branchiopoda
()
- Latreille, 1817
- Subclass:
Sarsostraca
()
- Tasch, 1969
- Order:
Anostraca
()
- Sars, 1867
- Family:
Thamnocephalidae
()
- Simon, 1886
- Genus:
Branchinella
()
- Specific name:
alachua
- Dexter, 1953
- Scientific name: - Branchinella alachua Dexter, 1953
- Specific name:
alachua
- Dexter, 1953
- Genus:
Branchinella
(
- Family:
Thamnocephalidae
(
- Order:
Anostraca
(
- Subclass:
Sarsostraca
(
- Class:
Branchiopoda
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 04-May-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Branchinella
There are approximately 40 species in this genus:
B. acaciodea (Acacia Fairy Shrimp) · B. acacioidea (Hidalgo Fairy Shrimp) · B. affinis · B. alachua (Alachua Fairy Shrimp) · B. apophysata (Fairy Shrimp) · B. arborea · B. australiensis · B. basispina (Fairy Shrimp) · B. buchananensis · B. budjiti · B. campbelli · B. chudeaui · B. compacta · B. denticulata (Fairy Shrimp) · B. dubia · B. frondosa · B. halsei · B. hardingi · B. hattahensis · B. kugenumaensis · B. lamellata · B. latzi · B. lithaca (Stone Mountain Fairy Shrimp) · B. longirostris · B. lyrifera · B. madurai · B. minuta · B. mira · B. mirabilis · B. nichollsi · B. occidentalis · B. ondonguae · B. ornata · B. pinnata · B. proboscida · B. simplex (Brine Shrimp) · B. spinosa · B. sublettei (Sublette Fairy Shrimp) · B. wellardi (Fairy Shrimp) · B. yunnanensis
Bibliography
- Belk, Denton, and Ján Brtek 1995. Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia, vol. 298. 315-353.
- Brtek, Ján 1997. Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the "large branchiopods" (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea, PrírodnéVedy, vol. 43. 1-66. ISBN: 80-85753-97-9.
- David Nicolson - ITIS Data Development Coordinator: McLaughlin et al. (2005) Occurrence values: I[X]
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Inland Water Crustacean Specialist Group 1996. Branchinella alachua. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
- NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
- Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2697772
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-83752
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 402715
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 83752
- IUCN ID: 3054
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ICBRA14020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1993
