Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) lithacus ( Creaser, 1940 )

Rogers, D. Christopher, Dunn, Ann & Price, W. Wayne, 2019, A review of Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) (Crustacea: Anostraca) with the first records of male-male anostracan aggressive competition, European Journal of Taxonomy 509, pp. 1-14 : 5-6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.509

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EA21763A-C185-4650-A075-5B9750640F50

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5933707

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA87CE-FFAE-8D07-FE58-F8C9C4A8FBE3

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) lithacus ( Creaser, 1940 )
status

 

Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) lithacus ( Creaser, 1940) View in CoL

Fig. 1C View Fig , G–H

Chirocephalus lithacus Creaser, 1940: 435 , figs 1–6.

Chirocephalus lithacus – Dexter 1953: 761.

Branchinella lithaca View in CoL – Belk & Sissom 1992: 314. — Belk & Brtek 1995: 325. — Brendonck 1997: 451 –454. — Brtek 1997: 22. — Brtek 2002: 54.

Dendrocephalus lithica – Rogers 2006: 7, 12.

Material examined

Holotype USA • ♂; Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain , within 100 yards of airway beacon; 9 Jun. 1939; USNM 79294 View Materials .

Allotype

USA • ♀; same data as for holotype; USNM 79295 View Materials .

Paratype

USA • ♀; same data as for holotype; USNM 79296 View Materials .

Remarks

This species is known from a set of rock outcrop pools on Stone Mountain in Georgia and has only been collected twice ( Dexter 1953). A petition was made to list D. lithacus as endangered under the United States Federal Endangered Species Act. However, after extensive survey efforts no evidence of extant populations of D. lithacus was found (Federal Register May 27, 1998) and the petition was denied ( Rogers 2006). Surveys made by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources at Stone Mountain and other granitic plutons in the area have so far yielded no new populations. This species is most likely extinct. The clam shrimp Eulimnadia graniticola Rogers et al., 2010 occurs in these pools.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Branchiopoda

Order

Anostraca

Family

Thamnocephalidae

Genus

Dendrocephalus

Loc

Dendrocephalus (Dendrocephalinus) lithacus ( Creaser, 1940 )

Rogers, D. Christopher, Dunn, Ann & Price, W. Wayne 2019
2019
Loc

Dendrocephalus lithica

Rogers D. C. 2006: 7
2006
Loc

Branchinella lithaca

Brtek J. 2002: 54
Brendonck L. 1997: 451
Belk D. & Brtek J. 1995: 325
Belk D. & Sissom S. L. 1992: 314
1992
Loc

Chirocephalus lithacus

Dexter R. W. 1953: 761
1953
Loc

Chirocephalus lithacus

Creaser E. P. 1940: 435
1940
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