320
TYPE LOCALITY: Laguna Grande near Cerro
Leon, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
DISTRIBUTION: known only from type locality.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta lindahli Packard, 1883
TYPE: neotype (109475), paraneotypes (109478)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: original a pool near Wallace,
Wallace County, Kansas, USA; neotype locality a pond
16 km east of Garden City, Finney County, Kansas,
USA.
DISTRIBUTION: Alberta, Canada through the
Great Plains and western United States into northern
Mexico.
COMMENTS: redescribed by Lynch (1964),
complex synonymy discussed.
Branchinecta longiantenna Eng, Belk & Eriksen,
1990
TYPE: holotype (216107), paratypes (216108)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. Additional
paratypes (050151) California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, California, USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a seasonally astatic pool in
the Slanted Rocks Area, Souza Ranch, Contra Costa
County, California, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: California, USA.
COMMENTS: candidate for endangered species
listing under USA Endangered Species Act (Federal
Register 57(90): 19856-19863).
Branchinecta lynchi Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990
TYPE: holotype (216109), paratypes (216110)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. Additional
paratypes (050152) California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, California, USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a seasonally astatic pool in
the Slanted Rocks Area, Souza Ranch, Contra Costa
County, California, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: California, USA.
COMMENTS: candidate for endangered species
listing under USA Endangered Species Act (Federal
Register 57(90): 19856-19863).
Branchinecta mackini Dexter, 1956
TYPE: holotype (99216), allotype (99217),
paratypes (99218) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a playa southeast of East
McNett Place in Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: Alberta and Saskatchewan,
Canada; western USA; Baja California, Mexico
(Brown et at., 1993).
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta mexicana Maeda-Martinez, Obreg6nBarboza & Dumont, 1993
TYPE: holotype (251912), allotype (251913),
and paratypes (251914) National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA; additional paratypes Escuela Superior de Biologia, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, MexICO.
TYPE LOCALITY: a temporary pond in a grass
prairie beside Federal Highway 119 at 8 km north of
Tlaxco, Tlaxcala in front the town of Rafael Avila
Camacho, Puebla, Mexico.
DISTRIBUTION: known only from type locality.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta minuta Smirnov, 1948
TYPE: syntypes (45974) Zoological Institute,
Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
TYPE LOCALITY: several temporary pools at
Novomoskovsk, Russia.
DISTRIBUTION: Samara River valley at Novomoskovsk, Russia.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta orientalis Sars, 1901
TYPE: syntypes (9663) Zoological Institute,
Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
TYPE LOCALITY: Lake Chuntu-nor, 50-60 km
south of Buir-nor, eastern Mongolia.
DISTRIBUTION: from east Mongolia, through
Tibet, Kashmir, the Pamirs, Afghanistan, Iran, the
southern Russian steppes, and the Wallachian and Pannonian lowland to Spain (Petkovski, 1991).
COMMENTS: redescribed by Petkovski (1991);
use caution in evaluating reports as history of confusion
exists between orientalis and ferox which were first
clearly distinguished by Brtek (1962); Brtek (1975)
and Petkovski (1991) independently synonymized
TYPE LOCALITY: Laguna Grande near Cerro
Leon, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
DISTRIBUTION: known only from type locality.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta lindahli Packard, 1883
TYPE: neotype (109475), paraneotypes (109478)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: original a pool near Wallace,
Wallace County, Kansas, USA; neotype locality a pond
16 km east of Garden City, Finney County, Kansas,
USA.
DISTRIBUTION: Alberta, Canada through the
Great Plains and western United States into northern
Mexico.
COMMENTS: redescribed by Lynch (1964),
complex synonymy discussed.
Branchinecta longiantenna Eng, Belk & Eriksen,
1990
TYPE: holotype (216107), paratypes (216108)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. Additional
paratypes (050151) California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, California, USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a seasonally astatic pool in
the Slanted Rocks Area, Souza Ranch, Contra Costa
County, California, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: California, USA.
COMMENTS: candidate for endangered species
listing under USA Endangered Species Act (Federal
Register 57(90): 19856-19863).
Branchinecta lynchi Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990
TYPE: holotype (216109), paratypes (216110)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. Additional
paratypes (050152) California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, California, USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a seasonally astatic pool in
the Slanted Rocks Area, Souza Ranch, Contra Costa
County, California, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: California, USA.
COMMENTS: candidate for endangered species
listing under USA Endangered Species Act (Federal
Register 57(90): 19856-19863).
Branchinecta mackini Dexter, 1956
TYPE: holotype (99216), allotype (99217),
paratypes (99218) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a playa southeast of East
McNett Place in Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: Alberta and Saskatchewan,
Canada; western USA; Baja California, Mexico
(Brown et at., 1993).
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta mexicana Maeda-Martinez, Obreg6nBarboza & Dumont, 1993
TYPE: holotype (251912), allotype (251913),
and paratypes (251914) National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA; additional paratypes Escuela Superior de Biologia, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, MexICO.
TYPE LOCALITY: a temporary pond in a grass
prairie beside Federal Highway 119 at 8 km north of
Tlaxco, Tlaxcala in front the town of Rafael Avila
Camacho, Puebla, Mexico.
DISTRIBUTION: known only from type locality.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta minuta Smirnov, 1948
TYPE: syntypes (45974) Zoological Institute,
Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
TYPE LOCALITY: several temporary pools at
Novomoskovsk, Russia.
DISTRIBUTION: Samara River valley at Novomoskovsk, Russia.
COMMENTS: none.
Branchinecta orientalis Sars, 1901
TYPE: syntypes (9663) Zoological Institute,
Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.
TYPE LOCALITY: Lake Chuntu-nor, 50-60 km
south of Buir-nor, eastern Mongolia.
DISTRIBUTION: from east Mongolia, through
Tibet, Kashmir, the Pamirs, Afghanistan, Iran, the
southern Russian steppes, and the Wallachian and Pannonian lowland to Spain (Petkovski, 1991).
COMMENTS: redescribed by Petkovski (1991);
use caution in evaluating reports as history of confusion
exists between orientalis and ferox which were first
clearly distinguished by Brtek (1962); Brtek (1975)
and Petkovski (1991) independently synonymized