Parastreptocephalus

Parastreptocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Streptocephalidae
Genus: Streptocephalus
Subgenus: Parastreptocephalus
Brendonck & Hamer, 1992

Parastreptocephalus is a subgenus of the fairy shrimp genus Streptocephalus, characterised by features of the male antennae and the tetrahedral shape of the eggs.[1] It comprises six species:

References

  1. Luc Brendonck, Michelle Hamer & Alain Thiery (1992). "Occurrence of tetrahedral eggs in the Streptocephalidae Daday (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) with descriptions of a new subgenus, Parastreptocephalus, and a new species, Streptocephalus (Parastreptocephalus) zuluensis Brendonck and Hamer". Journal of Crustacean Biology 12 (2): 282–297. doi:10.2307/1549081. JSTOR 1549081.
  2. 1 2 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)
  3. B. Herbert & B. V. Timms (2000). "A new species of Streptocephalus (Parastreptocephalus) (Crustacea: Anostraca: Streptocephalidae) from north Queensland, Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 (2): 385–390.
  4. La-Orsri Sanoamuang & Nukul Saengphan (2006). "A new species of Streptocephalus fairy shrimp (Crustacea, Anostraca) with tetrahedral cysts from central Thailand". International Review of Hydrobiology 91 (3): 250–256. Bibcode:2006IRH....91..250S. doi:10.1002/iroh.200510861.
  5. 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)
  6. M. Hamer (1996). "Streptocephalus zuluensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
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