''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of
fairy shrimp
Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and hypersaline lakes across the world, and they have even been found in deserts, ice-covered mou ...
in the family
Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalidae is a family of fairy shrimp, characterised by a reduced or vestigial maxilla, more than two setae on the fifth endite, divided pre-epipodites and widely separated seminal vesicle
The seminal vesicles (also called vesicular gla ...
. It contains the following species:
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Chirocephalus algidus''
Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
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Chirocephalus anatolicus''
Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
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Chirocephalus appendicularis''
Vavra, 1905
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Chirocephalus baikalensis''
(Naganawa & Orgiljanova, 2000)
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Chirocephalus bairdi''
(Brauer, 1877)
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Chirocephalus bobrinskii''
(Alcock, 1898)
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Chirocephalus brevipalpis''
(Orghidan, 1953)
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Chirocephalus brteki''
Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
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Chirocephalus carnuntanus''
(Brauer, 1877)
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Chirocephalus chyzeri''
Daday, 1890
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Chirocephalus croaticus
''Chirocephalus croaticus'' is a species of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It is found only in Croatia and Slovenia and is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (I ...
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Steuer, 1899
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Chirocephalus cupreus''
Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
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Chirocephalus diaphanus
''Chirocephalus diaphanus'' is a widely distributed European species of fairy shrimp that lives as far north as Great Britain, where it is the only surviving species of fairy shrimp and is protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. I ...
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Prévost, 1803
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Chirocephalus festae''
Colosi, 1922
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Chirocephalus hardingi''
Brtek, 1965
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Chirocephalus horribilis
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
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Smirnov, 1948
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Chirocephalus jaxartensis
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
''
(Smirnov, 1948)
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Chirocephalus josephinae
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
''
(Grube
Grube is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, approx. 15 km south of Heiligenhafen, and 45 km northeast of Lübeck.
Grube was the seat of the ''Amt
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, 1853)
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Chirocephalus kerkyrensis
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
''
Pesta, 1936
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Chirocephalus longicornis
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
''
(Smirnov, 1930)
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Chirocephalus ludmilae
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
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Vekhoff, 1992
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Chirocephalus marchesonii
''Chirocephalus marchesonii'' is a species of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It is endemic to Pilate Lake.
Discovery
The Chirocephalus marchesonii was observed for the first time in 1954 by Vittorio Marchesoni, director of the B ...
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Ruffo & Vesentini, 1957
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Chirocephalus mongolianus
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
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Uéno, 1940
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Chirocephalus murai
''Chirocephalus'' is a genus of fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. It contains the following species:
*'' Chirocephalus algidus'' Cottarelli ''et al.'', 2010
*'' Chirocephalus anatolicus'' Cottarelli, Mura & Özkütük, 2007
*'' Chiroce ...
''
Brtek & Cottarelli, 2006
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Chirocephalus nankinensis''
(Shen, 1933)
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Chirocephalus neumanni''
Hartland-Rowe, 1967
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Chirocephalus orghidani''
Brtek, 1966
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Chirocephalus paphlagonicus''
Cottarelli, 1971
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Chirocephalus pelagonicus
''Chirocephalus pelagonicus'' is a species of crustaceans in the family Chirocephalidae. It is endemic to North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Ma ...
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Petkovski, 1986
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Chirocephalus ponticus''
Beladjal & Mertens, 1997
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Chirocephalus povolnyi''
Brtek, 1967
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Chirocephalus priscus''
(Daday, 1910)
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Chirocephalus recticornis''
(Brauer, 1877)
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Chirocephalus reiseri''
Marcus, 1913
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Chirocephalus ripophilus''
(Lepeschkin, 1921)
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Chirocephalus robustus''
G. I. Müller, 1966
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Chirocephalus ruffoi''
Cottarelli & Mura, 1984
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Chirocephalus salinus''
Daday, 1910
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Chirocephalus shadini''
(Smirnov, 1928)
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Chirocephalus sibyllae''
Cottarelli & Mura, 1975
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Chirocephalus sinensis''
Thiele, 1907
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Chirocephalus skorikowi''
Daday, 1912
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Chirocephalus slovacicus''
Brtek, 1971
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Chirocephalus soulukliensis''
Rogers & Soufi, 2013
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Chirocephalus spinicaudatus''
Simon, 1886
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Chirocephalus tauricus''
Pesta, 1921
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Chirocephalus tereki''
Brtek, 1984
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Chirocephalus turkestanicus''
Daday, 1910
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Chirocephalus vornatscheri''
Brtek, 1968
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Chirocephalus wangi''
Hsü, 1933
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Chirocephalus weisigi''
Smirnov, 1933
References
External links
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Anostraca
Branchiopoda genera
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