''Dexteria floridana'' is an extinct species 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 ...

, the only species in the genus ''Dexteria''. It was

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

, where it was known from a single pool, south of Gainesville. It was originally described by Ralph W. Dexter in 1953 as a species of ''

Eubranchipus ''Eubranchipus'' is a genus of brine shrimp and fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. There are about 16 described species in ''Eubranchipus''. Species * '' Eubranchipus asanumai'' * '' Eubranchipus birostratus'' (Fischer, 1851) * '' Eubran ...

''. The species was declared extinct on October 5, 2011 because it was found that the only known pool of water that contained the known population was filled in for development, thereby killing the shrimps.

References

Anostraca Branchiopoda genera Endemic fauna of Florida Freshwater crustaceans of North America Extinct animals of the United States Monotypic arthropod genera Crustaceans described in 1953 Extinct invertebrates since 1500 Extinct crustaceans Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{branchiopoda-stub