onymized Tanymastix lacunae (Guerin, 1829).
Tanymastix stellae Cottarelli, 1967
TYPE: none designated.
TYPE LOCALITY: Orosei, Sardinia, Italy.
DISTRIBUTION: islands of Sardinia and Capraia, Italy and Corsica, France (Thiery & Gasc, 1990).
COMMENTS: Cottarelli & Mura (1973) reported that the population at the type locality may be
destroyed as a result of habitat alteration.
Thamnocephalus mexican us Linder, 1941
TYPE: holotype and paratypes (16356) Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany; additional paratypes
Zoological Museum, Uppsala, Sweden.
TYPE LOCALITY: Movano, Coahuila, Mexico.
DISTRIBUTION: Arizona and south Texas,
USA; northern Mexico (Maeda-Martinez, 1991).
COMMENTS: described as a subspecies of
T. platyurus, changed to species category by Moore
& Young (1964).
Thamnocephalus platyurus Packard, 1877
TYPE: syntypes Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA and possible syntypes (58809) National Museum
of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: Ellis, Kansas, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: widespread in western United States and in northern Mexico (Maeda-Martinez,
1991).
COMMENTS: none.
Thamnocephalus venezuelensis Belk & Pereira,
1982
TYPE: holotype (XI-1086), allotype (XI-1087),
and paratypes (XI-1088) Museum of Biology, Central
University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; additional paratypes (184951) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a temporary pool in the
state of Zulia, Venezuela beside the road to Guarero
3.2 km east of the border with Colombia (11 °20'N,
72 °05'W).
DISTRIBUTION: states of Falcon and Zulia,
Venezuela.
COMMENTS: none.
347
Acknowledgments. We thank Sarane T. Bowen, Luc
Brendonck, Michael Fugate, Michael C. Geddes,
Michelle Hamer, and Alejandro Maeda-Martinez for
reading and commenting on selected sections.
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Alcock, A., 1896. Description of a new species of Branchipus from
Calcutta. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 65: 538-539.
Alcock, A. w., 1898. Report on the natural history results of the
Pamir Boundary Commission. Superintendent of Government
Printing, Calcutta, India, 45 pp.
Alonso, M., 1985. A survey of the Spanish Euphyllopoda. Misc.
Zool. 9: 179-208.
Alonso, M., 1989. Branchipus blanchardi Daday, 1908 in the Alps:
redescription from type locality and synonymy with B. alpinus
Colosi 1922 (Crustacea, Anostraca). Ann. Limnol. 25: 47-53.
Alonso, M. &D. Jaume, 1991. Branchipus cortesin. sp.: anew anostracan from western Spain (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Hydrobiologia 212: 221-230.
Artom, C., 1906. II numero dei cromosomi e la maturazione dell'uovo dell' Artemia partenogenetica di Capodistria
edell' Artemia sessuata di CagJiari. Biologica I: 1-10.
Artom, C., 1921. Specie micropireniche e macropireniche dei genere
Artemia. Ric. Mirfol. 2: 137-155.
Baird, w., 1852. Monograph of the family Branchipodidae, a family
of crustaceans belonging to the Division Entomostraca, with a
description of a new genus and species of the family, and two
new species belonging to the Family Limnadiadae. Proc. Zool.
Soc. London 20: 18-37.
Baird, W., 1860. Description of two new species of entromostracous
crustaceans from India. Proc. zool. Soc. London 28: 445-446.
Barigozzi, C., 1974. Artemia: a survey of its significance in genetic
problems. Evol. BioI. 7: 221-252.
Barigozzi, c., 1980. Genus Artemia: problems of systematics. In
G. Persoone, P. Sorgeloos, O. Roels & E. Jaspers (Eds.) The
Brine Shrimp Artemia. Universa Press, Wetteren, Belgium 1:
147-153.
Barigozzi, C., 1989. Cytogenetics and speciation of the brine-shrimp
Artemia. Atti Acc. Lincei Mem. fis. s. 3 19: 57-96.
Barnard, K. H., 1924. Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna
of South-West Africa. II: Crustacea Entomostraca, Phyllopoda.
Ann. s. afro Mus. 20: 213-228.
Barnard, K. H., 1929. Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South
Africa. No. 10. A revision of South African Branchiopoda (Phyllopoda). Ann. S. afro Mus. 29: 181-270.
Belk, D., 1973. Streptocephalus moorei n. sp., a new fairy shrimp
(Anostraca) from Mexico. Trans. amer. Micros. Soc. 92: 507512.
Belk, D., 1979. Branchinecta potassa new species (Crustacea: Anostraca), a new fairy shrimp from Nebraska, USA. S. West. Nat.
24: 93-96.
Belk, D., 1995. Uncovering the Laurasian roots of Eubranchipus.
Hydrobiologia 298 (Dev. Hydrobiol. 103): 241-243.
Belk, D., G. Anderson & S-Y. Hsu, 1990. Additional observations
on variations in egg size among populations of Streptocephalus
seali (Anostraca). 1. Crust. BioI. 10: 128-133.
Tanymastix stellae Cottarelli, 1967
TYPE: none designated.
TYPE LOCALITY: Orosei, Sardinia, Italy.
DISTRIBUTION: islands of Sardinia and Capraia, Italy and Corsica, France (Thiery & Gasc, 1990).
COMMENTS: Cottarelli & Mura (1973) reported that the population at the type locality may be
destroyed as a result of habitat alteration.
Thamnocephalus mexican us Linder, 1941
TYPE: holotype and paratypes (16356) Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany; additional paratypes
Zoological Museum, Uppsala, Sweden.
TYPE LOCALITY: Movano, Coahuila, Mexico.
DISTRIBUTION: Arizona and south Texas,
USA; northern Mexico (Maeda-Martinez, 1991).
COMMENTS: described as a subspecies of
T. platyurus, changed to species category by Moore
& Young (1964).
Thamnocephalus platyurus Packard, 1877
TYPE: syntypes Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA and possible syntypes (58809) National Museum
of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: Ellis, Kansas, USA.
DISTRIBUTION: widespread in western United States and in northern Mexico (Maeda-Martinez,
1991).
COMMENTS: none.
Thamnocephalus venezuelensis Belk & Pereira,
1982
TYPE: holotype (XI-1086), allotype (XI-1087),
and paratypes (XI-1088) Museum of Biology, Central
University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; additional paratypes (184951) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
USA.
TYPE LOCALITY: a temporary pool in the
state of Zulia, Venezuela beside the road to Guarero
3.2 km east of the border with Colombia (11 °20'N,
72 °05'W).
DISTRIBUTION: states of Falcon and Zulia,
Venezuela.
COMMENTS: none.
347
Acknowledgments. We thank Sarane T. Bowen, Luc
Brendonck, Michael Fugate, Michael C. Geddes,
Michelle Hamer, and Alejandro Maeda-Martinez for
reading and commenting on selected sections.
References
Akatova, 1987. K poznaniju roda Branchinecta (Crustacea Anostraca). Trudy Zool. Inst. Acad. nauk SSSR 172: 167-176.
Alcock, A., 1896. Description of a new species of Branchipus from
Calcutta. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 65: 538-539.
Alcock, A. w., 1898. Report on the natural history results of the
Pamir Boundary Commission. Superintendent of Government
Printing, Calcutta, India, 45 pp.
Alonso, M., 1985. A survey of the Spanish Euphyllopoda. Misc.
Zool. 9: 179-208.
Alonso, M., 1989. Branchipus blanchardi Daday, 1908 in the Alps:
redescription from type locality and synonymy with B. alpinus
Colosi 1922 (Crustacea, Anostraca). Ann. Limnol. 25: 47-53.
Alonso, M. &D. Jaume, 1991. Branchipus cortesin. sp.: anew anostracan from western Spain (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Hydrobiologia 212: 221-230.
Artom, C., 1906. II numero dei cromosomi e la maturazione dell'uovo dell' Artemia partenogenetica di Capodistria
edell' Artemia sessuata di CagJiari. Biologica I: 1-10.
Artom, C., 1921. Specie micropireniche e macropireniche dei genere
Artemia. Ric. Mirfol. 2: 137-155.
Baird, w., 1852. Monograph of the family Branchipodidae, a family
of crustaceans belonging to the Division Entomostraca, with a
description of a new genus and species of the family, and two
new species belonging to the Family Limnadiadae. Proc. Zool.
Soc. London 20: 18-37.
Baird, W., 1860. Description of two new species of entromostracous
crustaceans from India. Proc. zool. Soc. London 28: 445-446.
Barigozzi, C., 1974. Artemia: a survey of its significance in genetic
problems. Evol. BioI. 7: 221-252.
Barigozzi, c., 1980. Genus Artemia: problems of systematics. In
G. Persoone, P. Sorgeloos, O. Roels & E. Jaspers (Eds.) The
Brine Shrimp Artemia. Universa Press, Wetteren, Belgium 1:
147-153.
Barigozzi, C., 1989. Cytogenetics and speciation of the brine-shrimp
Artemia. Atti Acc. Lincei Mem. fis. s. 3 19: 57-96.
Barnard, K. H., 1924. Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna
of South-West Africa. II: Crustacea Entomostraca, Phyllopoda.
Ann. s. afro Mus. 20: 213-228.
Barnard, K. H., 1929. Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South
Africa. No. 10. A revision of South African Branchiopoda (Phyllopoda). Ann. S. afro Mus. 29: 181-270.
Belk, D., 1973. Streptocephalus moorei n. sp., a new fairy shrimp
(Anostraca) from Mexico. Trans. amer. Micros. Soc. 92: 507512.
Belk, D., 1979. Branchinecta potassa new species (Crustacea: Anostraca), a new fairy shrimp from Nebraska, USA. S. West. Nat.
24: 93-96.
Belk, D., 1995. Uncovering the Laurasian roots of Eubranchipus.
Hydrobiologia 298 (Dev. Hydrobiol. 103): 241-243.
Belk, D., G. Anderson & S-Y. Hsu, 1990. Additional observations
on variations in egg size among populations of Streptocephalus
seali (Anostraca). 1. Crust. BioI. 10: 128-133.