Published August 23, 2023 | Version v1
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Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache 2018

  • 1. Laboratoire de bio-ressources sahariennes: préservation et valorisation, Faculté des sciences de la nature et de la vie Ouargla, Ouargla, Algeria & Laboratoire de Conservation des Zones Humides, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria & Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université de Ouargla, Ouargla, Algeria
  • 2. Laboratoire de Conservation des Zones Humides, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria
  • 3. Laboratoire de Conservation des Zones Humides, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria & Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université de Ouargla, Ouargla, Algeria
  • 4. Laboratoire de Conservation des Zones Humides, Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria & Department of Biology, University Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Annaba, Algeria

Description

Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache, 2018

Records in this study. None

Previous records in the Algerian Sahara. None

Previous records in the Hauts Plateaux and coastal area. C. sanhadjaensis was recorded for the first time in ponds of Ain Magroun (western Numidia) (Boumendjel et al. 2018), Ain-Magroun, Boudouaou (Skikda) (Boumendjel 2019; Boumendjel et al. 2023).

Comments. This endemic species was recently discovered and documented in northeastern Algeria, where a prevailing subhumid and humid climate exists.

Notes

Published as part of Chergui, Isslam, Satour, Abdellatif, Bouzid, Abdelhakim, Koulali, Khaled & Samraoui, Boudjéma, 2023, Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Large Branchiopods in Algeria and a checklist update, pp. 328-348 in Zootaxa 5336 (3) on pages 337-338, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8281535

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References

  • Boumendjel, L., Rabet, N. & Amarouayache, M. (2018) Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis sp. nov., a new chirocephalid species (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Numidia (Algeria). Zootaxa, 4526 (3), 381 - 391. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4526.3.7
  • Boumendjel, L. (2019) Contribution a la connaissance des grands branchiopodes d'Algerie: ecologie, biologie, genetique des chirocephales (Anostraca). Ph. D. Thesis, Universite Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, 94 pp.
  • Boumendjel, L., Amarouayache, M., Bonillo, C., Sorba, L., Bagni, T. & Rabet, N. (2023) Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Chirocephalus, with the description of a new species Chirocephalus algeriensis sp. nov. (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Algeria, preprint. Version 1. Research Square. [published online] https: // doi. org / 10.21203 / rs. 3. rs- 2833817 / v 1