Acroperus

Taxonomy

[Domain] Eukarya
[Kingdom] Animalia
[Phylum] Arthropoda
[Class] Branchiopoda
[Order] Cladocera
[Family] Chydoridae

Classifications within the genus Acroperus:

Records associated with the genus Acroperus, rather than a more specific classification:

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Acroperus sp.

Possibly A. harpae or A. angustatus.  Also consider A. neglectus (Lilljeborg, 1900).

See Sinev, A. (2009). Discrimination between two sibling species of Acroperus (Baird, 1843) from the Palearctic (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae). Zootaxa, 1-21. 10.5281/zenodo.189352. [View Online]

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