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Anaspides

Anaspides is a genus of freshwater crustaceans in the family Anaspidesidae. The genus was first described in 1894 by George Malcolm Thomson. The genus was originally placed in the family, Anaspididae by Thomson, but this genus name was preoccupied by the insect genus, Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762, and therefore, in 2017, the family was renamed Anaspidesidae by Shane Ahyong and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga.

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Anaspides
Anaspides tasmaniae1
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Anaspidacea
Family: Anaspidesidae
Genus: Anaspides
Thomson, 1894

Anaspides is a genus of freshwater crustaceans in the family Anaspidesidae.2 The genus was first described in 1894 by George Malcolm Thomson.23 The genus was originally placed in the family, Anaspididae by Thomson,45 but this genus name was preoccupied by the insect genus, Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762,4 and therefore, in 2017, the family was renamed Anaspidesidae by Shane Ahyong and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga.46

The genus is endemic to Tasmania.7

Species

After Höpel et al. (2023)8

References

References

  1. Matt Berger, iNaturalist (2023). "Anaspides tasmaniae - iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. iNaturalist.org. Occurrence dataset". Retrieved 31 March 2023 – via GBIF.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Anaspides Thomson, 1894". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. George M. Thomson (August 1894). "On a Freshwater Schizopod from Tasmania". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology. 6 (3): 285–303. doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1894.TB00482.X. ISSN 1945-9440. Wikidata Q56155463.
  4. "Family ANASPIDESIDAE Ahyong & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2017". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  5. Thomson, G.M. 1893. Notes on Tasmanian Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 45-76
  6. Shane T. Ahyong; Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga (6 September 2017). "Anaspidesidae, a new family for syncarid crustaceans formerly placed in Anaspididae Thomson, 1893" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 69 (4): 257–258. doi:10.3853/J.2201-4349.69.2017.1680. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q56036674.
  7. "Genus Anaspides Thomson, 1894". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  8. Höpel, Christoph G; Yeo, Darren; Ahyong, Shane T; Meier, Rudolf; Richter, Stefan (1 June 2023). "First mitochondrial genomes of Anaspidacea (Malacostraca, Crustacea) and the phylogenetic relationships of mountain shrimps (AnaspidesThomson, 1894) and their relatives within Anaspidesidae". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43 (2) ruad028. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruad028. ISSN 0278-0372.
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