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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	27 051001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cyclestheria hislopi   (Baird, 1859)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups Family: 27 51 Cyclestheriidae (clam shrimps) - show full list Common Name: [a clam shrimp] Organism Type: a clam shrimp Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Freshwater Parent Codes: 27 051901     Cyclestheria spp.

Taxon Notes:	Recent genetic work has shown that this "species" is in fact a group of cryptic species, and more than one species is probably present in Australia, which have yet to be formally described. The true C. hislopi is the form found in SE Asia and India. See Schwentner et al, 2013.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:26ad8816-f841-4913-b83c-8bc2c1c68d9e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:889262 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-03-03 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Richter, S., Timms, B.V., 2005. A list of the Recent clam shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, including a description of a new species of Eocyzicus., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 57(3): 341-354.
Scientific Name verified against:	Schwentner, M., Clavier, S., Fritsch, M., Olesen, J., Padhye, S.Timms, B.V., Richter, S., 2012. Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): A group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 66: 800-810.