Branchinectella media
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
Branchinectella media (Schmankewitsch, 1873)
Records in this study. Sebkhet Djendli, Garaet Guellif, Chott Tinsilt
Previous records in the Algerian Sahara. None
Previous records in the Hauts Plateaux and coastal area. Recorded at Boumia, Chott Tinsilt, Grande Sebkha of Oran, and Es-Senia lake (Blanchard & Richard 1890), Oran (Daday 1910), Es-Senia lake, Baniou, and Mécheria (Gauthier 1928b), Boumia and Tinsilt (Samraoui et al. 2006), Dayet Morsli (De Los Ríos-Escalante & Amarouayache 2016), Garaet Tarf, Chott Tinsilt, Sebkhet Djendli, Sebkhet Ouled Lembarek (Rais & Amarouayache 2018), and Garaet Tarf, Garaet Ank Djmel, Garaet Guellif, Chott Tinsilt, Sebkhet Djendli, Sebkhet Ouled Lembarek (Ouahioune Rais 2019).
Comments. The species was recorded near Oran under the name Branchinectella salina (Daday, 1910). B. media occurs only in semi-arid coastal regions and in the steppe zone of the Hauts Plateaux, as shown by its distribution in Algeria and its only record in Tunisia (Marrone et al. 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chirocephalidae
- Genus
- Branchinectella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anostraca
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmankewitsch
- Species
- media
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Branchinectella media (Schmankewitsch, 1873) sec. Chergui, Satour, Bouzid, Koulali & Samraoui, 2023
References
- Blanchard, R. A. E. & Richard, J. (1890) Sur les crustaces des Sebkhas et des chotts d'Algerie. Bullettin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 45, 136 - 138.
- Daday, D. D. E. (1910) Monographie systematique des Phyllopodes anostraces. Annales des Sciences Naturelles: Zoologie 11, 91 - 489.
- Gauthier, H. M. (1928 b) Nouvelles recherches sur la faune des eaux continentales de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Imprimerie Minerva, Alger, 419 pp.
- Samraoui, B., Chakri, K. & Samraoui, F. (2006) Large branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca and Spinicaudata) from the salt lakes of Algeria. Journal of Limnology, 65 (2), 83 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.4081 / jlimnol. 2006.83
- Rais, L. & Amarouayache, M. (2018) The co-occurence of two anostracan species Branchinectella media (Schmankewitsch, 1873) and Phallocryptus spinosus (Milne-Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea) in saline lakes from the Aures region (North-east Algeria). Vie et Milieu, 68, 167 - 174.
- Ouahioune Rais, L. (2019) Contribution a la connaissance des grands branchiopodes (crustaces) de la region des Aures: ecologie et biologie de Phallocryptus spinosus et Branchinectella media. Ph. D. thesis, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, Algeria, 89 pp.
- Marrone, F., Korn, M., Stoch, F., Naselli-Flores, L. & Turki, S. (2016) Updated checklist and distribution of large branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata) in Tunisia. Biogeographia - The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 31, 27 - 53. https: // doi. org / 10.21426 / B 631132736