Eoleptestheria

Eoleptestheria ticinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Spinicaudata
Family: Leptestheriidae
Genus: Eoleptestheria
Daday, 1913
Species: E. ticinensis
Binomial name
Eoleptestheria ticinensis
(Balsamo-Crivelli, 1859)

Eoleptestheria ticinensis is a species of clam shrimp in the family Leptestheriidae. Although up to eight species have formerly been recognised in the genus Eoleptestheria, they are more usually all considered part of one species with a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

References

  1. Brian V. Timms (2009). "First records of a leptestherid clam shrimp in Australia (Crustacea, Spinicaudata, Leptestheriidae, Eoleptestheria)". ZooKeys 18: 1–16. doi:10.3897/zookeys.18.92.


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