Species list, Checklist of Class Branchiopoda (Branchiopods) for Cape Town (Western Cape)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Class Branchiopoda Latreille, 1817 (Branchiopods)
and region Cape Town (Western Cape)

Class

Branchiopoda
Latreille, 1817
Branchiopods, Brine shrimps, Daphnia, Phyllopods

3
4
6

Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

List of families for Cape Town
3 Families width 6 Species

Daphniidae Straus, 1820		2	Species	Taxom
Leptestheriidae Daday, 1923		1	Species	Taxom
Streptocephalidae Daday, 1910	Streptocephalid brine shrimp	3	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Town
4 Genera with 6 Species

Daphnia O. F. Mueller, 1942	Water Flea	1	Species	Taxom
Leptestheria G. O. Sars, 1862		1	Species	Taxom
Simocephalus Schödler, 1841		1	Species	Taxom
Streptocephalus Baird, 1898		3	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Town
6 Species

Daphnia (Daphnia) obtusa Kurz, 1942	Scentless plant bugs
Leptestheria rubidgei Baird, 1862
Simocephalus exspinosus Koch, 1841
Streptocephalus dendyi Barnard, 1929
Streptocephalus proboscideus Frauenfeld, 1873	Sudanese fairy shrimp
Streptocephalus purcelli G. O. Sars, 1898

Subnodes of Branchiopoda with occurrences in Cape Town

Subclass	Phyllopoda Preuss, 1951	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Sarsostraca Tasch, 1969	1 1 3	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Branchiopoda at artfakta.se
Branchiopoda at dyntaxa.se
Branchiopoda at gbif.org
Branchiopoda at gbif.org
Branchiopoda at itis.gov
Branchiopoda at marinespecies.org