Acroperus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anomopoda
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Classis: Branchiopoda Superordo: Cladocera Ordo: Anomopoda

Familia: Chydoridae
Subfamilia: Aloninae
Genus: Acroperus
Species: A. africanus – A. tupinamba
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Name

• Acroperus Baird, 1843
  • Original status: valid subgenus of Lynceus, but treated in binomina as a genus
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: not fixed in original publication
  • Originally included nominal species (2): Lynceus harpae Baird, ????; Acroperus nanus Baird, 1843
    • Fixation:

References

• Baird, W. 1843: The natural history of the British entomostracs VI. Annals and magazine of natural history, 11: 81–95. Internet Archive BHL
• Neretina, A.N. & Kotov, A.A. 2015. A new species of Acroperus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) from Africa. Zootaxa 4039(4): 516–528. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Sinev, A.Y. 2009: Discrimination between two sibling species of Acroperus (Baird, 1843) from the Palearctic (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae). Zootaxa, 2176: 1–21. Abstract & excerpt
• Sinev, A.Y.; Elmoor-Loureiro, L.M.A. 2010: Three new species of chydorid cladocerans of subfamily Aloninae (Branchipoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 2390: 1–25. Preview

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus