Streptocephalus gracilis Sars, 1898

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Missing (Mlambo et al., 2025)

Last record: 1898 (Mlambo et al., 2025)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution & Habitat

South Africa

Anatomy & Morphology

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Sars, G. O. (1898). Description of two additional South African Phyllopoda. Archiv far Mathematik ag Naturvidenskab B 20: 1-23.

or,

Sars, G. O. (1898). On some South African Phyllopoda raised from dried mud. Archiv far Mathematik ag Naturvidenskab 20: 1-43.

Other references:

Belk, Denton, and Ján Brtek. (1995). Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia 298: 315-353.

Brtek, Ján. (1997). Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the "large branchiopods" (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea, Prírodné Vedy 43: 1-66.

De Roeck, E. R., Vanschoenwinkel, B. J., Day, J. A., Xu, Y., Raitt, L. and Brendonck, L. (2007). Conservation status of large branchiopods in the Western Cape, South Africa. Wetlands 27(1): 162-173.

Hamer, Michelle L. (1994). The Anostraca (crustacea: Branchiopoda) of southern Africa (Doctoral dissertation). Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Natal.

Hamer, Michelle L., Brendonck, Luc, Coomans, August and Appleton, Chris C. (1994). A review of African Streptocephalidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca). Part 1: South of Zambezi and Kunene Rivers. Arch. Hydrobiol./Suppl. 99(3): 235-277.

Hamer, M. L. and Rayner, N. A. (1996). A note on the unusual crustacean community of a temporary pool in the Northern Cape. Southern African Journal of Aquatic Science 22(1-2): 100-104.

Mabidi, A., Bird, M. S., Perissinotto, R. and Rogers, D. C. (2016). Ecology and distribution of large branchiopods (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata) of the Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa. ZooKeys 618: 15-38.

Mlambo, M., Bills, D., Meissenheimer, K. and Van Der Colff, D. (2025). Streptocephalus gracilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T20876A21419093. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T20876A21419093.en. Accessed on 06 August 2026.

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

Rogers, D. Christopher and Meyer-Milne, E. (2021). Two new species of fairy shrimps (Anostraca: Branchipodidae, Streptocephalidae) from the Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. The Journal of Crustacean Biology 41(2): 1-7.

Schael, D. M., Gama, P. T. and Melly, B. L. (2015). Ephemeral wetlands of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area: classification, biodiversity and management implications. Water Research Commission.

WoRMS (2026). Streptocephalus (Streptocephalus) gracilis Sars, 1898 (sensu Hamer et al., 1994). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1251139 on 2026-08-06

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