Branchinella

Branchinella
Branchinella sp. from a rice paddy in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Thamnocephalidae
Genus: Branchinella
Sayce, 1903
Type species
Branchipus australiensis
Richters, 1976 [1]

Branchinella is a crustacean genus 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 are threatened by habitat destruction, and B. latzi might be extinct. The latter species was formerly found in waterholes at Uluru, but these have become polluted with urine and faeces of hikers, and the shrimp was absent in a recent survey.

Selected species

Branchinella includes the following species:[3][4][5]

  • Branchinella acacioidea Belk & Sissom, 1992
  • Branchinella affinis Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella alachua Dexter, 1953
  • Branchinella apophysata Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella arborea Geddes, 1981
  • Branchinella australiensis (Richters, 1876)
  • Branchinella basispina Geddes, 1981
  • Branchinella buchananensis Geddes, 1981
  • Branchinella chudeaui (Daday, 1910)
  • Branchinella compacta Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella complexidigitata Timms, 2003[2]
  • Branchinella denticulata Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella dubia (Schwartz, 1917)
  • Branchinella frondosa Henry, 1924
  • Branchinella halsei Timms, 2003[2]
  • Branchinella hardingi (Qadri & Baqai, 1956)
  • Branchinella hattahensis Geddes, 1981
  • Branchinella kadjikadji Timms, 2003[2]
  • Branchinella kugenumaensis (Ishikawa, 1895)
  • Branchinella latzi Geddes, 1981 (possibly extinct)
  • Branchinella lithaca (Creaser, 1940)
  • Branchinella longirostris Wolf, 1911
  • Branchinella lyrifera Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella madurai Raj, 1951
  • Branchinella mcraeae Timms, 2005[1]
  • Branchinella minuta Rœn, 1952
  • Branchinella multidigitata Timms, 2008[1]
  • Branchinella nana Timms, 2003[2]
  • Branchinella nichollsi Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella occidentalis Dakin, 1914
  • Branchinella ondonguae (Barnard, 1924)
  • Branchinella ornata Daday, 1910
  • Branchinella papillata Timms, 2008[1]
  • Branchinella pinderi Timms, 2008[1]
  • Branchinella pinnata Geddes, 1981
  • Branchinella proboscida Henry, 1924
  • Branchinella simplex Linder, 1941
  • Branchinella spinosa (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
  • Branchinella sublettei Sissom, 1976
  • Branchinella thailandensis Sanoamuang, Saengphan & Murugan, 2002[6]
  • Branchinella vosperi Timms, 2008[1]
  • Branchinella wellardi Milner, 1929

Some related fairy shrimp, such as Phallocryptus wrighti, were formerly placed in Branchinella.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brian V. Timms (2008). "Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea, Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, with descriptions of new species". Records of the Western Australian Museum 24 (3): 289–306.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 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.
  3. ↑ Denton Belk & Ján Brtek (1995). D. Belk, H. J. Dumont & G. Maier, ed. "Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology and Aquaculture II". Hydrobiologia 298 (1–3): 315–353. doi:10.1007/BF00033826. |chapter= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Denton Belk & Ján Brtek (1997). M. A. Simovich, C. Sassaman & D. Belk, ed. "Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology and Conservation". Hydrobiologia 359 (1–3): 243–245. doi:10.1023/A:1003172516989. |chapter= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ 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 (in press). doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002155.
  6. ↑ La-Orsri Sanoamuang, Nukul Saengphan & Gopal Murugan (2002). A. M. Maeda-Martínez, B. V. Timms, D. C. Rogers, F. A. Abreu-Grobois & G. Murugan, ed. "Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology 4". Hydrobiologia 486 (1): 63–69. doi:10.1023/A:1021378113530. |chapter= ignored (help)