Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache, 2018

Chergui, Isslam, Satour, Abdellatif, Bouzid, Abdelhakim, Koulali, Khaled & Samraoui, Boudjéma, 2023, Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Large Branchiopods in Algeria and a checklist update, Zootaxa 5336 (3), pp. 328-348 : 337-338

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B04CD850-B9E2-4747-B8EF-D96E90A0EE7D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8281571
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A498793-FFD6-FF8F-FF5D-F9032CC6B8B1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache, 2018
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Chirocephalus sanhadjaensis Boumendjel, Rabet, and Amarouayache, 2018 View in CoL View at ENA

Records in this study. None

Previous records in the Algerian Sahara. None

Previous records in the Hauts Plateaux and coastal area. C. sanhadjaensis was recorded for the first time in ponds of Ain Magroun (western Numidia) ( Boumendjel et al. 2018), Ain-Magroun, Boudouaou (Skikda) ( Boumendjel 2019; Boumendjel et al. 2023).

Comments. This endemic species was recently discovered and documented in northeastern Algeria, where a prevailing subhumid and humid climate exists.