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Lepidurus

Branchiopoda - Notostraca - Triopsidae

Taxonomy
Lepidurus was named by Leach (1819). It is extant.

It was assigned to Apodidae by Haughton (1924); and to Triopsidae by Tasch (1969), Geyer et al. (2024).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1819Lepidurus Leach
1924Lepidurus Haughton
1940Prolepidurus Tchernyshev p. 892
1969Lepidurus Tasch p. R135
1980Brachygastriops Yang and Hang
1980Weichangiops Yang and Hong
1985Discocephala Hong
2024Lepidurus Geyer et al. p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
classBranchiopodaLatreille 1817
subclassPhyllopoda
subclassCalmanostraca
orderNotostracaSars 1867
familyTriopsidae
genusLepidurusLeach 1819

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Lepidurus Leach 1819
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Invalid names: Prolepidurus Tchernyshev 1940 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: nektobenthicc
Diet: suspension feederc
Diet 2: detritivorec
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2009-07-21 10:04:49
Modified: 2010-02-04 14:45:55
Source: c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Bathonian to the top of the Pleistocene or 168.20000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Russian Federation (Zabaykal'ye) Prolepidurus sp. (159014 241482)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117Greenland L. arcticus (227055)