Branchinecta

{{Short description|Genus of small freshwater animals}}

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| image_caption = Branchinecta packardi

| taxon = Branchinecta

| authority = Verrill, 1869 {{ITIS |id=83694 |taxon=Branchinecta Verrill, 1869 |accessdate=May 21, 2011}}

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Branchinecta is a genus of fairy shrimp in family Branchinectidae. It includes around 50 species,{{cite journal |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1126 |pages=35–51 |year=2006 |title=Three new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Nearctic |author=D. Christopher Rogers |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01126p051f.pdf |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1126.1.3 }} found on all continents except Australia. Branchinecta gigas, the giant fairy shrimp, is the largest species in the order, with a length of up to {{convert|10|cm|0}},{{cite journal |author=Geoffrey Fryer |year=1968 |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London |volume=177 |issue=1 |pages=19–34 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.1966.tb00948.x |title=Branchinecta gigas Lynch, a non-filter-feeding raptatory anostracan, with notes on the feeding habits of certain other anostracans |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119867653/abstract|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105114408/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119867653/abstract|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-05}} and Branchinecta brushi lives at the highest altitude of any crustacean, at {{convert|5930|m}}, a record it shares with the copepod Boeckella palustris. A new genus, Archaebranchinecta was established in 2011 for two species previously placed in Branchinecta.{{cite journal |author=D. Christopher Rogers |author2=Jorge S. Coronel |name-list-style=amp |year=2011 |title=A redescription of Branchinecta pollicifera Harding, 1940, and its placement in a new genus (Branchiopoda: Anostraca: Branchinectidae) |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=717–724 |doi=10.1651/10-3449.1|doi-access=free }}

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