Branchinecta

Branchinecta
Branchinecta packardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Branchinectidae
Genus: Branchinecta
Verrill, 1869 [1]
Species

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Branchinecta is a genus of fairy shrimp in family Branchinectidae. It includes around 50 species,[1][2] found on all continents except Australia.[2] Branchinecta gigas, the giant fairy shrimp, is the largest species in the order, with a length of up to 10 centimetres (4 in),[3] and Branchinecta brushi lives at the highest altitude of any crustacean, at 5,930 metres (19,460 ft), a record it shares with the copepod Boeckella palustris.[4] A new genus, Archaebranchinecta was established in 2011 for two species previously placed in Branchinecta.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Branchinecta Verrill, 1869". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  2. ^ a b D. Christopher Rogers (2006). "Three new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Nearctic" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1126: 35–51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1126.1.3.
  3. ^ Geoffrey Fryer (1968). "Branchinecta gigas Lynch, a non-filter-feeding raptatory anostracan, with notes on the feeding habits of certain other anostracans". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 177 (1): 19–34. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1966.tb00948.x. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference brushi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ D. Christopher Rogers & Jorge S. Coronel (2011). "A redescription of Branchinecta pollicifera Harding, 1940, and its placement in a new genus (Branchiopoda: Anostraca: Branchinectidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 31 (4): 717–724. doi:10.1651/10-3449.1.