| Dendrocephalus | |
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| Dendrocephalus geayi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Anostraca |
| Family: | Thamnocephalidae |
| Genus: | Dendrocephalus Daday, 1908 |
| Subgenera | |
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Dendrocephalus is a genus of fairy shrimp found in South and North America. It is characterised by the presence of an antenna-like appendage arising between the second antennae and the eyestalks.1 The genus comprises 17 species in two subgenera:1
- Dendrocephalus Daday, 1908
- Dendrocephalus affinis Pereira, 1984 – Venezuela
- Dendrocephalus argentinus Pereira & Belk, 1987 – Paraguay
- Dendrocephalus brasiliensis Pesta, 1921 – Argentina, Brazil
- Dendrocephalus cervicornis (Weltner, 1890) – Argentina
- Dendrocephalus conosurius Pereira & Ruiz, 1995
- Dendrocephalus cornutus Pereira & Belk, 1987 – Costa Rica
- Dendrocephalus geayi Daday, 1908 – Venezuela
- Dendrocephalus goiasensis Rabet & Thiéry, 1996 – Brazil
- Dendrocephalus orientalis Rabet & Thiéry, 1996 – Brazil
- Dendrocephalus sarmentosus Pereira & Belk, 1987 – Galápagos Islands
- Dendrocephalus spartaenovae Margalef, 1967 – Venezuela
- Dendrocephalus thieryi Rabet, 2006 – Brazil2
- Dendrocephalus venezolanus Pereira, 1984 – Venezuela
- Dendrocephalinus Rogers, 2006
- Dendrocephalus acacioidea (Belk & Sissom, 1992) – United States
- Dendrocephalus alachua (Dexter, 1953) – United States
- Dendrocephalus lithaca Creaser, 1940 – United States
- Dendrocephalus proeliator Rogers, Dunn and Price, 2019 - United States3
References
References
- D. Christopher Rogers (2006). "A genus level revision of the Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1260: 1–25.
- Nicolas Rabet (2006). "A new species of Brazilian Dendrocephalus (Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1370: 49–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1370.1.4.
- Rogers, D. Christopher; Dunn, Ann; Price, W. Wayne (26 March 2019). "A review of Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) (Crustacea: Anostraca) with the first records of male-male anostracan aggressive competition". European Journal of Taxonomy (509). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.509.