Dexteria

Dexteria
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Chirocephalidae
Genus: Dexteria
Brtek, 1965 [2]
Species: D. floridana
Binomial name
Dexteria floridana
(Dexter, 1953) [2]

Dexteria floridana was a species of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae, the only species in the genus Dexteria.[3] It is endemic to the United States. It was originally described by Ralph W. Dexter in 1953 as a species of Eubranchipus.[3] The species was declared extinct on October 5, 2011.[4]

References

  1. ^ Inland Water Crustacean Specialist Group (1996). "Dexteria floridana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/6519. Retrieved October 10, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b "Dexteria". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=83741. Retrieved October 10, 2010. 
  3. ^ a b D. Christopher Rogers (2002). "A morphological re-evaluation of the anostracan families Linderiellidae and Polyartemiidae, with a redescription of the linderiellid Dexteria floridana (Dexter 1956) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)". Hydrobiologia 486 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1023/A:1021326129460. 
  4. ^ "Two Florida Species Declared Extinct". October 5, 2011. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2011/florida-extinct-species-10-05-2011.html.