Branchinecta ferox (Milne-Edwards, 1840)

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 : 335

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.8281549
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A498793-FFD8-FF82-FF5D-FB1A2A5FBE49
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Branchinecta ferox (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
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Branchinecta ferox (Milne-Edwards, 1840) 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. B. ferox has been recorded at Mécheria, Aïn Sefra ( Gauthier 1928b), and in Jemot ( Beladjal & Amarouayache 2023; Ouahioune Rais 2019).

Comments. B. ferox was found exclusively at three Algerian sites, all of which were in the Hauts Plateaux ( Gauthier 1928b). This species shows a preference for alkaline waters ( Thiéry 1987) and, although it occurs throughout the Maghreb, is relatively localized ( Thiéry 1987; Marrone et al. 2016).