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Class Branchiopoda - Branchiopods


Biodiversity survey of large branchiopod crustacea in New Mexico completion report (2000-2002)
By B. Lang and D.C. Rogers
NM Department of Game and Fish, 2002
B. Lang and D.C. Rogers 2002, unpublished. Biodiversity survey of large branchiopod crustacea in New Mexico completion report (2000-2002), NM Department of Game and Fish. It is available from the Valles Caldera Coalition and Valles Caldera Trust Preserve Scientist Bob Parmenter.

I placed a revision of the report's Appendix I. Large branchiopod crustacean collection data in New Mexico, 2000-2002 in the Articles forum. It contains location data for many species in NM hyperlinked to Google Maps satellite images of the various sites.

Branchiopoda (Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida)
By D. C. Rogers
Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, vol. 2, pp. 242-249, 2009
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In this reference:

Table 1 Higher classification of branchiopod Crustacea

Class Branchiopoda
  Subclass Sarsostraca
    Order Anostraca
      Suborder Artemiina
      Suborder Anostracina
  Subclass Phyllopoda
    Order Notostraca
    Order Laevicaudata
    Order Diplostraca
      Suborder Spinicaudata
      Suborder Cyclestherida (Combined with the Cladocera into the ‘Cladoceromorpha’)
      Suborder Cladocera

Three new cryptic species of the freshwater zooplankton genus Holopedium ... revealed by genetic methods
By C. L. Rowe, S. J. Adamowicz, and P. D. N. Herbert
Zootaxa 1656:1-49, 2007
C. L. Rowe, S. J. Adamowicz, and P. D. N. Herbert, Three new cryptic species of the freshwater zooplankton genus Holopedium (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Ctenopoda), revealed by genetic methods, Zootaxa 1656:1-49.

From page 28, "All previous descriptions of H. gibberum from temperate North America are properly assigned to H. glacialis".

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Monographic systématique des phyllopodes Conchostracés, Troisieme partie (Eulimnadia)
By E. Daday de Deés
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Vol. 9, 1-81 (505-580), 1926
In French

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Identification of species in the Conchostracan genus Eulimnadia by egg shell morphology
By Denton Belk
Journal of Crustacean Biology, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 115-125, 1989
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Eulimnadia Belki, A new clam shrimp from Cozumel, Mexico ... with review...
By Joel W. Martin
Journal of Crustacean Biology, Vol. 9, No. 1, 104-114, 1989
Joel W. Martin, Eulimnadia belki, A new clam shrimp from Cozumel, Mexico (Conchostraca:Limnadiidae), with a review of Central and South American species of the genus Eulimnadia, Journal of Crustacean Biology, 9(1):, 104-114, 1989.

Includes details of species also found in US.

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Revision of the egg morphology of Eulimnadia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata)
By Nicolas Rabet
Zoosystema Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 373-391, 2010
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The effects of pool sediments on the egg morphology of Neotropical Eulimnadia (Branchiopoda : Limnadiidae)
By Nicolas Rabet, David Montero, Sebastien Lacau
Journal of Limnology, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 17-26, 2014