Cyzicus (crustacean)

Cyzicus
Cyzicus californicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Spinicaudata
Family: Cyzicidae
Genus: Cyzicus
Audouin, 1837
Type species
Cyzicus tetracera
(Krynicki, 1830)
Species

See Text

Synonyms
  • Bairdestheria Raymond, 1946; unaccepted
  • Caenestheriella Daday, 1915 fide Margalef, 1953 fide Straskraba, 1965; unaccepted
  • Estheria Rüppell in Strauss-Durchheim, 1837; nomen praeoccupatum
  • Isaura Joly, 1842; nomen praeoccupatum
  • Opsipolygrapta Novojilov, 1954; unaccepted

Cyzicus is a genus of clam shrimps in the family Cyzicidae. Identified by Jean Victoire Audouin in 1837, the genus was reidentified as Caenestheriella by Eugen von Daday in 1910. Cyzicus tetracerus is the type species.

There are about 24 species in the genus, with an additional 10 uncertain:

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