Eucrenonaspides

Eucrenonaspides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Anaspidacea
Family: Psammaspididae
Genus: Eucrenonaspides
Knott & Lake, 1980
Species:
E. oinotheke
Binomial name
Eucrenonaspides oinotheke
Knott & Lake, 1980

Eucrenonaspides oinotheke is a species of crustacean in the family Psammaspididae, endemic to Tasmania, the only species described in the genus Eucrenonaspides. Eucrenonaspides is in the order Anaspidacea.[2] It was described from a spring at 9 Payton Place, Devonport, Tasmania in 1980, making it "the first spring-dwelling syncarid recorded from the Australian region". It is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List. A further undescribed species is known from south-western Tasmania.[3]

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Eucrenonaspides oinotheke". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T8164A12894255. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T8164A12894255.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Koenemann, Stefan (2001). "Class multicrustea: subclass Malacostraca". Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrusteacea: A Story of scientific method. Oxford University Press. pp. 306–320. ISBN 9780195365764.
  3. ^ W. F. Ponder; S. A. Clarke; S. Eberhard; J. B. Studdert (2005). "A radiation of hydrobiid snails in the caves and streams at Precipitous Bluff, southwest Tasmania, Australia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae s.l.)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1074: 1–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1074.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2010.