Phallocryptus spinosus (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 : 337

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scientific name	Phallocryptus spinosus (Milne Edwards, 1840)
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Records in this study. Garaet Tarf, Garaet Guellif.

Previous records in the Algerian Sahara. Tilremt, Hassi R’mel ( Gauthier 1928a).

Previous records in the Hauts Plateaux and coastal area. Sebkhet Oran ( Gauthier 1928a), Boughzoul ( Beladjal et al. 1995b), Garaet Tarf, Garaet Guellif, Garaet Ank El Djmel, Garaet Ezzemoul ( Samraoui et al. 2006; Amarouayache 2014), Sebkhet Oran, Dayet Morsli, Macta Marshes, Garaet Ank El Djmel, Garaet Guellif, Sebkhet Djendli, Garaet Ezzemoul, Sebkhet Ain Yagout, Dayet Braya, Sebkhet Telamine, Sebkhet Sidi Chami (De Los Ríos-Escalante & Amarouayache 2016), Garaet Tarf, Chott Tinsilt, Sebkhet Djendli, Sebkhet Ouled Lembarek ( Rais & Amarouayache 2018).

Comments. The species occurs mainly in the Hauts Plateaux and has not been recorded in the northern Sahara in recent years. The species is also absent from the humid and subhumid regions of Morocco, where it is rare ( Thiéry 1987), and Tunisia ( Marrone et al. 2016).

References

Amarouayache, M. (2014) Observations on Phallocryptus spinosa (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) populations from the high plateaus of Northeastern Algeria. Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, 2 (4), 22 - 31. https: // doi. org / 10.7770 / safer-v 2 n 4 - art 844

Beladjal, L., De Vrjendt, B., Vander Haeghen, D. & Mertens, J. (1995 b) A preliminary analysis of the cercopod setation pattern of Algerian Anostraca (Crustacea) species. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 125 (2), 383 - 393.

Gauthier, H. M. (1928 a) Description de Tanymastix mzabica, nouveau phyllopode anostrace du Sahara et liste des Anostraces recoltes recemment par l'auteur en Algerie et Tunisie. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord, 19, 87 - 91.

Marrone, F., Korn, M., Stoch, F., Naselli-Flores, L. & Turki, S. (2016) Updated checklist and distribution of large branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata) in Tunisia. Biogeographia - The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 31, 27 - 53. https: // doi. org / 10.21426 / B 631132736

Rais, L. & Amarouayache, M. (2018) The co-occurence of two anostracan species Branchinectella media (Schmankewitsch, 1873) and Phallocryptus spinosus (Milne-Edwards, 1840) (Crustacea) in saline lakes from the Aures region (North-east Algeria). Vie et Milieu, 68, 167 - 174.

Samraoui, B., Chakri, K. & Samraoui, F. (2006) Large branchiopods (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca and Spinicaudata) from the salt lakes of Algeria. Journal of Limnology, 65 (2), 83 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.4081 / jlimnol. 2006.83

Thiery, A. (1987) Les crustaces branchiopodes Anostraca, Notostraca & Conchostraca des milieux limniques temporaires (Dayas) au Maroc. Taxonomie, biogeographie, ecologie. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur. [unknwon pagination]