Artemia gracilis Verrill, 1869

Woodentub brine shrimp, New England brine shrimp

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

For a detailed taxonomic history of A. gracilis see (Belk & Bowen, 1990). Now considered a senior synonym of the younger (extant) Artemia franciscana, but Denton Belk and Dr. Sarane T. Bowen successfully applied to have the former suppressed (Anonymous, 1993).

Conservation Status

Invalid (suppressed name)

Last record: 1869

A specimen apparently attributed to Artemia gracilis by Addison Emery Verrill, which was collected by S. C. Ball on Laysan Island, Hawaii in April 1923 is in the Peabody Museum collection, and bears the accession number "YPM IZCR 006421" (Source).

Distribution

Connecticut (including West Haven bridge, New Haven County) & Utah, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Syntypes:

YPM IZCR 000396 (collected in 1869)
YPM IZCR 000397 (collected in 1869)

Other specimens:

MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 45208 (female, at least 1 individual stored in 70% ethanol)
MCZ Invertebrate Zoology 45211 (female, at least 1 individual stored in 70% ethanol)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Verrill, Addison Emery. (1869a). Contributions to zoology from the museum of Yale College. III. Descriptions of some new American phyllopod Crustacea. American Journal of Science and Arts (2) 48: 244-254.

Other references:

Amat Domenech, F. (1980). Differentiation in Artemia strains from Spain, pp. 19-39. In: Persoone, G., Sorgeloos, P., Roels, O. and Jasper, E. (eds.). The Brine Shrimp Artemia, volume 1. Morphology, genetics, radiobiology, toxicology. Belgium: Universa Press. 318 pp.

Anonymous. (1991). Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(1): 57.

Anonymous. (1991). Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(3): 246-248.

Anonymous. (1992). Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49(1): 72-73.

Anonymous. (1993). Opinion 1704: Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): specific name conserved. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50(1): 68-69.

Belk, Denton and Bowen, Sarane T. (1990). Case 2728: Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 47(3): 178-183.

Coates, J. A., Ellis, C. H. and Schwab, R. L. (1957). Brine shrimp nauplii, [Artemia gracilis], as food for juvenile pink salmon. Fish. Res. Pap. Wash. Dept. Fish. 2(1): 67-72.

Daday, E. (1910). Monographie systématiques des Phyllopodes Anostracés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (9) 11: 111-489.

Jensen, Albert C. (1918). Some observations on Artemia gracilis, the brine shrimp of Great Salt Lake. The Biological Bulletin 34(1): 18-32.

Kellogg, V. L. (1906). A new Artemia and its life conditions. Science (n.s.) 24: 594-596.

Kuenen, D. J. (1939). Systematical and physiological notes on the brine shrimp Artemia. Archives Needlandaises de Zoologie 3: 365-449.

Packard, A. S. Jr. (1883). A monograph of the phyllopod Crustacea of North America with remarks on the order Phyllocarida. Twelfth Annual Report of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: A Report of Progress of the Exploration in Wyoming and Idaho for the year 1878 (F.V. Haydn, U.S. geologist). Part 1, section 2, pp. 295-592, 39 pls.

Relyea, Gladys M. (1937). The Brine Shrimp of Great Salt Lake. The American Naturalist 71(737): 612-616. [Abstract]

Rogers, D. Christopher. (2013). Anostraca catalogus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61(2): 525-546.

Verrill, A. E. (1869b). New localities of Artemia. American Journal of Science and Arts (2) 48: 430.

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