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Eurycercus longirostris Hann, 1982
Water Flea
Family: Eurycercidae

Introduction to the Cladocerans of BC

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Distribution of Eurycercus longirostris in British Columbia in British Columbia

Introduction


Eurycercus longirostris is widely distributed through the whole of the USA and southern Canada, and is present in Churchill, Manitoba and the Yukon Territory. Southernmost populations occur in central Mexico (Bekker et al, 2012).

Eurycercus longirostris was formerly conflated with its congener, E. lamellatus (Müller, 1776). Hann (1982) described E. longirostris from a very limited geographical area in Indiana, USA. Using molecular and morphological methods on material from across the Holarctic, Bekker et al (2012) found E. longirostris to be widespread across North America. This latter study did not find E. lamellatus outside Eurasia, nor E. longirostris outside North America. A subsequent study by Bekker et al (2014) has reported E. longirostris from Wrangel Island and Bering Island, off the coast of the Russian Far East.

This species is found in water bodies of different types, and displays a wide range of temperature preferences (Bekker et al, 2012).

Note Author: Ian Gardiner

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Synonyms and Alternate Names

Eurycercus lamellatus (O.F. Müller, 1776)

Species References

Bekker, E. I., Kotov, A. A. & D. J. Taylor 2012. A revision of the subgenus Eurycercus (Eurycercus) Baird, 1843 emend. nov. (Cladocera: Eurycercidae) in the Holarctic with the description of a new species from Alaska. Zootaxa 3206: 1-40.

Bekker, E. I., Novichkova, A. A. & A. A. Kotov. 2014. New findings of Eurycercus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda) in the eastern Palearctic. Zootaxa 3895: 297-300.

Hann, B.J. 1982. Two New Species of Eurycercus (Bullatifrons) from Eastern North America (Chydoridae, Cladocera). Taxonomy, Ontogeny, and Biology. Internationale Revue gesamten Hydrobiologie 67(4): 585-610.

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