Parartemia
Encyclopedia
Parartemia is a genus of fairy shrimp
endemic to Australia
. One species, P. contracta is listed as vulnerable
on the IUCN Red List
. Parartemia contains the following species:
Fairy shrimp
Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are also known as fairy shrimp. They are usually long . Most species have 20 body segments, bearing 11 pairs of leaf-like phyllopodia , and the body lacks a carapace...
endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. One species, P. contracta is listed as vulnerable
Vulnerable species
On 30 January 2010, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 9694 Vulnerable species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and sub-populations.-References:...
on the IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
. Parartemia contains the following species:
- Parartemia acidiphila Timms & Hudson, 2009
- Parartemia auriciforma Timms & Hudson, 2009
- Parartemia bicorna Timms, 2010
- Parartemia boomeranga Timms, 2010
- Parartemia contracta Linder, 1941
- Parartemia cylindrifera Linder, 1941
- Parartemia extracta Linder, 1941
- Parartemia informis Linder, 1941
- Parartemia laticaudata Timms, 2010
- Parartemia longicaudata Linder, 1941
- Parartemia minuta Geddes, 1973
- Parartemia mouritzi Timms, 2010
- Parartemia purpurea Timms, 2010
- Parartemia serventyi Linder, 1941
- Parartemia triquetra Timms & Hudson, 2009
- Parartemia veronicae Timms, 2010
- Parartemia yarleensis Timms & Hudson, 2009
- Parartemia zietziana Sayce, 1903