Biology:Phallocryptus spinosus

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Short description: Species of crustacean

Phallocryptus spinosus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Thamnocephalidae
Genus: Phallocryptus
Species:
P. spinosus
Binomial name
Phallocryptus spinosus
(H.Milne-Edwards, 1840)

Phallocryptus spinosus, the halophilic fairy shrimp, is a species of fairy shrimp within the family Thamnocephalidae.[1] The species of previously recorded from a shallow salty pond in Tabriz, occurring in the same area as Branchinecta orientalis. More locations were reported in similar habitats in central and south Iran from Bafq and Lar, and a 4th population was found 200 kilometers south to the original locality.[2]

References

  1. "Phallocryptus spinosus (H.Milne-Edwards, 1840)" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/7543717. 
  2. Vakili, B.; Sari, A. (2012). "The halophilic fairy shrimp, Phallocryptus spinosa (Milne-Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from southeast, Iran" (in en). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 8 (2). doi:10.22067/IJAB.V8I2.25586. 

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