Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anomopoda 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Branchiopoda
Superordo: Cladocera
Ordo: Anomopoda

Familia: Eurycercidae
Subfamilia: Eurycercinae
Genus: Eurycercus
Species: Eurycercus beringi

Name

  • Eurycercus beringi Bekker, Kotov & Taylor, 2012: 28. figs. 10–11
Holotype: MGU Ml 108, ♀, collected in 05.08.2006 by D. J. Taylor.
Type locality: Council #05: a roadside pond <1.5 m deep, 10 X 25 m, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, U.S.A. Geographic coordinates: 64.8807 N 163.6872 W.
Etymology: The taxon is named in honor of Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681–1741), the leader of the First and the Second Russian Kamchatka Expeditions, who discovered the Bering Strait, Alaska, and the Aleutian and Commander Islands. Now this region is named “Beringia”.

References

  • Bekker, E.I.; Kotov, A.A.; Taylor, D.J. 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.
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