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Thamnocephalidae

Thamnocephalidae is a family of anostracan branchiopod crustaceans with wide distribution including Western Australia, Southern Africa and South America. It was originally described as a subfamily of Branchipodidae by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1883, and elevated to the rank of family by Simon in 1886. Six genera are recognised, in two subfamilies:BranchinellinaeBranchinella Sayce, 1903 Dendrocephalus Daday, 1908 Phallocryptus Birabén, 1951 Spiralifrons Dixon, 2010ThamnocephalinaeCarinophallus Rogers, 2006 Thamnocephalus Packard, 1879

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Thamnocephalidae
Male Thamnocephalus venezuelensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Suborder: Anostracina
Family: Thamnocephalidae
Packard, 1883 1

Thamnocephalidae is a family of anostracan branchiopod crustaceans with wide distribution including Western Australia, Southern Africa and South America. It was originally described as a subfamily of Branchipodidae by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1883, and elevated to the rank of family by Simon in 1886.2 Six genera are recognised, in two subfamilies:2

Branchinellinae
Thamnocephalinae
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References

  1. "Thamnocephalidae Packard, 1883". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  2. D. Christopher Rogers (2006). "A genus level revision of the Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1260: 1–25.
  3. Christopher J. Dixon (2010). "Spiralifrons, replacement name for Gurneya Brtek, 1996 (Branchiopoda, Thamnocephalidae), junior homonym of Gurneya Roth, 1974 (Insecta, Blattaria)". Crustaceana. 83 (10): 1279–1280. doi:10.1163/001121610X526960.