Chirocephalus

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Chirocephalus
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Chirocephalus diaphanus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Chirocephalidae
Genus: Chirocephalus
Prévost, 1803

Chirocephalus is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species: [1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chirocephalus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Vezio Cottarelli, Cem Aygen & Graziella Mura (2010). "Fairy shrimps from Asiatic Turkey: redescription of Chirocephalus tauricus Pesta, 1921 and descriptions of Chirocephalus algidus sp. nov. and Chirocephalus brteki sp. nov. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 2528: 29–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2528.1.2.
  3. 1 2 Vezio Cottarelli, Graziella Mura & R. Sulhi Özkütük (2007). "On two new Anostraca species (Branchiopoda) from Turkey: Chirocephalus anatolicus sp. nov. and Chirocephalus cupreus sp. nov". Crustaceana . 80 (4): 455–474. doi:10.1163/156854007780440902.
  4. ↑ Ján Brtek & Vezio Cottarelli (2006). "Chirocephalus murae, a new species (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) from Turkey". Crustaceana . 79 (1): 89–98. doi:10.1163/156854006776759707. JSTOR   20107628.
  5. ↑ D. Christopher Rogers & Mahmoud Soufi (2013). "A new species of Chirocephalus (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Iran". Zootaxa. 3609 (3): 319–326. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.6. PMID   24699594.


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