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Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache 2018
Creators
- 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chirocephalidae
- Genus
- Chirocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anostraca
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache
- Species
- sanhadjaensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, 2018 sec. Chergui, Satour, Bouzid, Koulali & Samraoui, 2023
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