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Branchinella
Branchinella sp. from a rice paddy in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
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Branchinella

Sayce, 1903
Type species
Branchipus australiensis
Richters, 1976 [1]

Branchinella is a genus of crustaceans 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 have small ranges and are threatened by habitat destruction. For example, B. latzi is only known from south Northern Territory and southwest Queensland,[3] but it has been extirpated from the Uluru region due to pollution from urine and faeces of tourists.[4]

Selected species

Branchinella includes the following species:[5][6][7]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Brian V. Timms (2008). "Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea, Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, with descriptions of new species" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 24 (3): 289–306.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ "Species Branchinella latzi Geddes, 1981". Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  4. ^ Tlozek, E. (29 September 2009). "Tourist poo 'killed rare shrimp' on Uluru". ABC News. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. ^ Denton Belk; Ján Brtek (1995). D. Belk, H. J. Dumont & G. Maier (ed.). "Checklist of the Anostraca". Hydrobiologia. 298 (1–3): 315–353. doi:10.1007/BF00033826.
  6. ^ Denton Belk; Ján Brtek (1997). M. A. Simovich, C. Sassaman & D. Belk (ed.). "Supplement to "Checklist of the Anostraca"". Hydrobiologia. 359 (1–3): 243–245. doi:10.1023/A:1003172516989.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ La-Orsri Sanoamuang; Nukul Saengphan; Gopal Murugan (2002). A. M. Maeda-Martínez; B. V. Timms; D. C. Rogers; F. A. Abreu-Grobois; G. Murugan (eds.). "First record of the family Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Southeast Asia and description of a new species of Branchinella". Hydrobiologia. 486 (1): 63–69. doi:10.1023/A:1021378113530.