Parartemia

Parartemia is a genus of brine shrimp endemic to Australia.[2] One species, P. contracta is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.[3] Parartemia contains the following species:[2][4][5]

  • Parartemia acidiphila Timms & Hudson, 2009
  • Parartemia auriciforma Timms & Hudson, 2009
  • Parartemia bicorna Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia boomeranga Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia contracta Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia cylindrifera Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia extracta Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia informis Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia laticaudata Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia longicaudata Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia minuta Geddes, 1973
  • Parartemia mouritzi Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia purpurea Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia serventyi Linder, 1941
  • Parartemia triquetra Timms & Hudson, 2009
  • Parartemia veronicae Timms, 2010
  • Parartemia yarleensis Timms & Hudson, 2009
  • Parartemia zietziana Sayce, 1903

Parartemia
P. zietziana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Branchiopoda
Order:
Anostraca
Family:
Parartemiidae

Daday, 1910
Genus:
Parartemia

O. A. Sayce, 1903 [1]
Species

See text

References
  1. "Parartemia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. M. C. Geddes (1973). "A new species of Parartemia (Anostraca) from Australia". Crustaceana. 25 (1): 5–12. doi:10.1163/156854073x00443. JSTOR 20102005.
  3. Inland Water Crustacean Specialist Group (1996). "Parartemia contracta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T16187A5507091. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16187A5507091.en.
  4. Brian V. Timms & Peter Hudson (2009). "The brine shrimps (Artemia and Parartemia) of South Australia, including descriptions of four new species of Parartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2248: 47–68.
  5. Brian V. Timms (2010). "Six new species of the brine shrimp Paratemia Sayce 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina) in Western Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2715: 1–35.


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