Family LEPTESTHERIIDAE Daday, 1923

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptestheriidae Stebbing, T.R.R. 1902. Entomostraca. pp. 269-272 in Anon. Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Vol. 28(Supplementary vol. 4) 10. [https://digital.nls.uk/194337486] [270].
• Leptestheriidae Daday, E. 1915. Monographie Systematique des phyllopodes Conchostraces. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 20: 39-330 [190] [junior homonym].

• Daday, E. 1913. Magyarorszag kagylos levellabu rakjai. Mathematikai és Természettudományi Közlemények 32: 1-99

Introduction

The single species in this family from Australia was previously treated as Eoleptestheria ticinensis (Balsamo-Crivelli, 1859) however Padhye & Rabet (2023) assigned Australian records to the genus Leptestheria as a new species L. timmsi. This was based on an earlier molecular study of the Spinicaudate by Schwentner et al. (2020) that showed Australian specimens of "Eoleptestheria ticinensis" to be much more closely related to Leptestheria rubidgei (Baird, 1862) than European specimens, which were found to be closely related to Magrebestheria maroccana Thiéry, 1988 from Morocco. As noted by Schwentner et al. (2020) the Spinicaudata are in need of revision.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LEPTESTHERIIDAE: Eoleptestheria ticinensis (Balsamo-Crivelli, 1859) — Schwentner, M., Rabet, N., Richter, S., Giribet, G., Padhye, S., Cart, J., Bonillo, C. & Rogers, D.C. 2020. Phylogeny and biogeography of Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Zoological Studies 59(44): 1-23; Padhye, S.M. & Rabet, N. 2023. Assigning the Australian clam shrimp Eoleptestheria (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Leptestheriidae) to a new species status. Zootaxa 5318(4): 563-570

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