Branchinecta

Branchinecta is a genus of fairy shrimp in family Branchinectidae. It includes around 50 species,^[1][2] found on all continents except Australia.^[2] Branchinecta gigas, the giant fairy shrimp, is the largest species in the order, with a length of up to 10 centimetres (4 in),^[3] and Branchinecta brushi lives at the highest altitude of any crustacean, at 5,930 metres (19,460 ft), a record it shares with the copepod Boeckella palustris.^[4] A new genus, Archaebranchinecta was established in 2011 for two species previously placed in Branchinecta.^[5]

Branchinecta
Branchinecta packardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Branchiopoda
Order:	Anostraca
Family:	Branchinectidae
Genus:	Branchinecta Verrill, 1869 [1]
Species
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Species

• Branchinecta achalensis Cesar, 1985
• Branchinecta belki Maeda-Martínez, Obregón-Barboza & Dumont, 1992 ^[6]
• Branchinecta brushi Hegna & Lazo-Wasem, 2010^[4]
• Branchinecta campestris Lynch, 1960 – pocket-pouch fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta coloradensis Packard, 1874 – Colorado fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta constricta Rogers, 2006
• Branchinecta conservatio Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 ^[7] – conservancy fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta cornigera Lynch, 1958 – horned fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta dissimilis Lynch, 1972 – Great Basin fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta ferox (M. Milne-Edwards, 1840)
• Branchinecta gaini Daday, 1910
• Branchinecta gigas Lynch, 1937 ^[8] – giant fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta granulosa Daday, 1902
• Branchinecta hiberna Rogers & Fugate, 2001 – winter fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta iheringi Lilljeborg, 1889
• Branchinecta kaibabensis Belk & Fugate, 2000 – Kaibab fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta lateralis Rogers, 2006
• Branchinecta leonensis Cesar, 1985
• Branchinecta lindahli Packard, 1883 – versatile fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta longiantenna Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 ^[9] – longhorn fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta lynchi Eng, Belk & Eriksen, 1990 ^[10] – vernal pool fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta mackini Dexter, 1956 – alkali fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta mediospina Rogers, Dasis & Murrow, 2011^[11]
• Branchinecta mesovallensis Belk & Fugate, 2000 – mid-valley fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta mexicana Maeda-Martínez, Obregón-Barboza & Dumont, 1992 ^[12]
• Branchinecta minuta Smirnov, 1948
• Branchinecta oriena Belk & Rogers, 2002
• Branchinecta orientalis G. O. Sars, 1901
• Branchinecta oterosanvicentei Obregón-Barboza, et al., 2002
• Branchinecta packardi Pearse, 1912 – Packard fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta paludosa (O. F. Müller, 1788) – circumpolar fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta palustris Birabén, 1946
• Branchinecta papillosa Birabén, 1946
• Branchinecta potassa Belk, 1979 – Nebraska fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta prima Cohen, 1983
• Branchinecta raptor Rogers, Quinney, Weaver, and Olesen 2006
• Branchinecta readingi Belk, 2000 – Reading fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta rocaensis Cohen, 1982
• Branchinecta sandiegonensis Fugate, 1993 ^[13] – San Diego fairy shrimp
• Branchinecta serrata Rogers, 2006
• Branchinecta somuncurensis Cohen, 1983
• Branchinecta tarensis Birabén, 1946
• Branchinecta tolli (G. O. Sars, 1897)
• Branchinecta valchetana Cohen, 1981
• Branchinecta vuriloche Cohen, 1985