Keys to the Australian clam shrimps (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida)

Museum Victoria Science Reports: No. 20 pp 1-25 (2018)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mvsr.2018.20

Abstract

The morphology and systematics of clam shrimps is described followed by a key to genera. Each genus is treated, including diagnostic features, list of species with distributions, and references provided to papers with keys or if these are not available preliminary keys to species within that genus are included.

Keywords

gnammas, freshwater, crustaceans, morphology

Citation

Timms, B.V. 2018. Keys to the Australian clam shrimps (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida). Museum Victoria Science Reports 20: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mvsr.2018.20

Publication date: 20 August 2018