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Branchiopoda (Fairy shrimp, Clam shrimp, etc.)

Order: Anostraca

Family: Artemiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Artemia gracilis Verrill, 1869 Woodentub brine shrimp, New England brine shrimp 1869 Connecticut & Utah, USA Invalid (suppressed name) Access

 

Family: Branchinectidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Branchinecta lutulenta Rogers & Hill, 2013 Muddy fairy shrimp (rediscovered) Washington, USA Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Chirocephalidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dexteria floridana (Dexter, 1953) Florida fairy shrimp 1939 or later Alachua County, Florida, USA Extinct Access

 

Family: Thamnocephalidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dendrocephalus alachua (Dexter, 1953) Alachua fairy shrimp, Peninsula fairy shrimp (rediscovered) Alachua County, Florida, USA Rediscovered Access
             
Dendrocephalus lithaca (Creaser, 1940) Stone Mountain fairy shrimp 1951 Stone Mountain, De Kalb County, Georgia, USA Extinct Access

 

 

Order: Cladocera

Family: Chydoridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Rhynchotalona latens Sarmaja-Korjonen, Hakojarvi & Korhola, 2000 - (rediscovered) Finland Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Daphniidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Daphnia mitsukuri Ishikawa, 1896 - (rediscovered) Japan Rediscovered Access

 

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