Galapagos Species Database

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Triops longicaudatus LeConte, 1846

Summer tadpole shrimp

considerable variation in number and size of medial spines, ranging from 1 to 3 strongly developed spines, set in row.

Found in standing fresh water

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Branchiopoda

Order
Notostraca

Family
Triopsidae

Genus
Triops

Species
longicaudatus

Taxon category: Accepted

References

  • Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
  • Brendonck, L. Thiery, A. & Coomans, A. (1990) Taxonomy and Biogegraphy of the Galápagos Branchiopod Fauna (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata). J. Crustacean Biol. 10(4): 676-694.
  • Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
  • Gerecke, R. Peck, S.B. & Pehofer, H.E. (1995) The invertebrate fauna of the inland waters of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador) - a limnological and zoogeographical summary. Arch. Hydrobiol./ Suppl. 107(2): 113-147.

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