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