Branchinecta
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Branchinecta is a genus of crustacean
in family Branchinectidae. It includes around 50 species, found on all continents except Africa
and Australia
. Branchinecta gigas, the giant fairy shrimp, is the largest species in the order, with a length of up to 10 centimetres (4 in), and Branchinecta brushi
lives at the highest altitude of any crustacean, at 5930 metres (19,455.4 ft), a record it shares with the copepod
Boeckella palustris
. A new genus, Archaebranchinecta was established in 2011 for two species previously placed in Branchinecta.
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
in family Branchinectidae. It includes around 50 species, found on all continents except Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Branchinecta gigas, the giant fairy shrimp, is the largest species in the order, with a length of up to 10 centimetres (4 in), and Branchinecta brushi
Branchinecta brushi
Branchinecta brushi is a species of fairy shrimp found at an altitude of in the Chilean Andes.-Distribution and discovery:The type specimens of B. brushi were collected on December 13, 1988 by Charles F. Brush during an attempt to break the world record for the world's highest SCUBA dive...
lives at the highest altitude of any crustacean, at 5930 metres (19,455.4 ft), a record it shares with the copepod
Copepod
Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
Boeckella palustris
Boeckella palustris
Boeckella palustris is a species of copepod that lives in South America. It is found in shallow pools, including the highest body of water ever to have yielded a crustacean, at an altitude of in the Andes. It was described independently by two scientists in 1955, using material brought back by...
. A new genus, Archaebranchinecta was established in 2011 for two species previously placed in Branchinecta.
- Branchinecta achalensis Cesar, 1985
- Branchinecta belki Maeda-Martínez, Obregón-Barboza & Dumont, 1992
- Branchinecta brushiBranchinecta brushiBranchinecta brushi is a species of fairy shrimp found at an altitude of in the Chilean Andes.-Distribution and discovery:The type specimens of B. brushi were collected on December 13, 1988 by Charles F. Brush during an attempt to break the world record for the world's highest SCUBA dive...
Hegna & Lazo-Wasem, 2010 - Branchinecta campestris Lynch, 1960 – pocket-pouch fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta coloradensis Packard, 1874 – Colorado fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta constricta Rogers, 2006
- Branchinecta conservatioConservancy fairy shrimpThe conservancy fairy shrimp, Branchinecta conservatio, is a small crustacean in the family Branchinectidae. It ranges in size from about to long. Fairy shrimp are aquatic species in the order Anostraca. They have delicate elongate bodies, large stalked compound eyes, no carapaces, and eleven...
Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 – conservancy fairy shrimp - Branchinecta cornigera Lynch, 1958 – horned fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta dissimilis Lynch, 1972 – Great Basin fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta ferox (M. Milne-Edwards, 1840)
- Branchinecta gainiBranchinecta gainiBranchinecta gaini is a species of fairy shrimp from Antarctica and Patagonia. It is the largest freshwater invertebrate in Antarctica, at long. It lives on bacteria and other organisms, surviving the winter as resting eggs.-Distribution:B...
Daday, 1910 - Branchinecta gigasBranchinecta gigasBranchinecta gigas is a species of fairy shrimp that lives in western Canada and the United States. It is the largest species of fairy shrimp, growing up to long. It lives in turbid, hyposaline waters, and hunts smaller fairy shrimp by feel....
Lynch, 1937 – giant fairy shrimp - Branchinecta granulosa Daday, 1902
- Branchinecta hiberna Rogers & Fugate, 2001 – winter fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta iheringi Lilljeborg, 1889
- Branchinecta kaibabensis Belk & Fugate, 2000 – Kaibab fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta lateralis Rogers, 2006
- Branchinecta leonensis Cesar, 1985
- Branchinecta lindahli Packard, 1883 – versatile fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta longiantennaBranchinecta longiantennaBranchinecta longiantenna is a rare species of crustacean in the family Branchinectidae and the order Anostraca, the fairy shrimp. Its common name is longhorn fairy shrimp. It is endemic to California in the United States, where there are only four known populations...
Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 – longhorn fairy shrimp - Branchinecta lynchiBranchinecta lynchiThe vernal pool fairy shrimp, Branchinecta lynchi, is a species of freshwater crustacean in the family Branchinectidae. It is endemic to the U.S. states of Oregon and California, living in vernal pools. They range in size from long...
Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 – vernal pool fairy shrimp - Branchinecta mackini Dexter, 1956 – alkali fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta mediospina Rogers, Dasis & Murrow, 2011
- Branchinecta mesovallensisMidvalley fairy shrimpThe midvalley fairy shrimp, Branchinecta mesovallensis, is a small freshwater crustacean in the Branchinectidae family endemic to shallow ephemeral pools near the middle of California's Central Valley...
Belk & Fugate, 2000 – mid-valley fairy shrimp - Branchinecta mexicana Maeda-Martínez, Obregón-Barboza & Dumont, 1992
- Branchinecta minuta Smirnov, 1948
- Branchinecta oriena Belk & Rogers, 2002
- Branchinecta orientalis G. O. Sars, 1901
- Branchinecta oterosanvicentei Obregón-Barboza, et al., 2002
- Branchinecta packardi Pearse, 1912 – Packard fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta paludosa (O. F. Müller, 1788) – circumpolar fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta palustris Birabén, 1946
- Branchinecta papillosa Birabén, 1946
- Branchinecta potassa Belk, 1979 – Nebraska fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta prima Cohen, 1983
- Branchinecta readingi Belk, 2000 – Reading fairy shrimp
- Branchinecta rocaensis Cohen, 1982
- Branchinecta sandiegonensisBranchinecta sandiegonensisBranchinecta sandiegonensis is a rare species of crustacean in the family Branchinectidae and the order Anostraca, the fairy shrimp. Its common name is San Diego fairy shrimp. It is native to southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico...
Fugate, 1993 – San Diego fairy shrimp - Branchinecta serrata Rogers, 2006
- Branchinecta somuncurensis Cohen, 1983
- Branchinecta tarensis Birabén, 1946
- Branchinecta tolli (G. O. Sars, 1897)
- Branchinecta valchetana Cohen, 1981
- Branchinecta vuriloche Cohen, 1985