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Artemia franciscana

Artemia franciscana

Kellogg, 1906

GBIF:119574157

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Comments. Lake Abert is the only known Oregon locality for A. franciscana (Vanhaecke et al. 1987; Triantaphyllidis et al., 1998) and we have verified that this population is extant. Lynch (1960) reported this species from numerous small saline pools from the Omak Plateau (including Soap Lake), numerous pools south of Moses Lake, and Hot (Bitter) Lake in Washington. Triantaphyllidis et al. (1998) gives the additional Washington records of Penley Lake, Deposit Thirteen, and Lake Cameron. We found A. franciscana in numerous small pools and playas in Grant County and in one locality co-occurring with Branchinecta mackini (see comments under B. mackini below). Artemia franciscana is not known from Idaho.
Rogers, D. Christopher, Hill, Matthew A. (2013): Annotated Checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA, with the “ rediscovery ” of a new species of Branchinecta (Anostraca: Branchinectidae). Zootaxa 3694 (3): 249-261, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.3.5

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AnimaliaArthropodaBranchiopodaAnostracaArtemiidaeArtemiaArtemia franciscana

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Annotated Checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA, with the “ rediscovery ” of a new species of Branchinecta (Anostraca: Branchinectidae)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Rogers, D. Christopher, Hill, Matthew A. (2013): Annotated Checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA, with the “ rediscovery ” of a new species of Branchinecta (Anostraca: Branchinectidae). Zootaxa 3694 (3): 249-261, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.3.5

Abstract

We present a checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA. New distributional records are presented for most species, including the first records of Branchinecta constricta Rogers, 2006 and Lepidurus cryptus Rogers, 2001 from Idaho, the first record of B. oriena Belk & Rogers 2002 from Oregon, the first record of B. mackini Dexter, 1956 and Artemia franciscana Kellogg, 1906 co-occurring, and the first record of L. cryptus from Washington. Furthermore, we present the first record of Eulimnadia diversa Mattox, 1937 from west of the continental divide, which we interpret as an accidental introduction. In 1959, Lynch collected a new fairy shrimp species from Washington, deposited that material in the US National Museum, labeled “muddy fairy shrimp, Branchinecta lutulenta ”, but never described it. Numerous efforts have been made to rediscover extant populations since 1999. We rediscovered this species in 2011, from two small pools from the vicinity of Lynch’s original collection site, which appears to have been destroyed. Branchinecta lutulenta sp. nov. is most closely related to B. lindahli Packard, 1883 and B. oterosanvicentei Obregón-Barboza et al., 2002. Branchinecta lutulenta sp. nov. is readily separable from all other Branchinecta species by the form of the male second antennal distal antennomere and the ornamentation of the female dorsum.

Key words: Branchinecta lutulenta sp. nov., Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Insular Endemic Species

Rogers D C, Hill M A, plazi (2013). Annotated Checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA, with the “ rediscovery ” of a new species of Branchinecta (Anostraca: Branchinectidae). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3694.3.5 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 12/31/2013View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
119574157
Dataset Key
2659f6ab-ff8f-42ec-be88-b1a683b7e8a3
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5180091
Taxon ID
FB7FA973590AFFA656C1FBC03D57B6A6.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026
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