Cyzicus (crustacean)

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Kingdom Animalia Family Cyzicidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus		Subphylum Crustacea Scientific name Cyzicidae Cyzicus Higher classification Cyzicidae Order Clam shrimp

Similar Clam shrimp, Notostraca, Diplostraca, Lepidurus, Branchipus schaefferi

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.

There are seven species in the genus:

Cyzicus belfragei (Packard, 1871) – Belfrage clam shrimp

Cyzicus californicus (Packard, 1883) – California clam shrimp

Cyzicus elongatus (Mattox, 1957 – elongate clam shrimp

Cyzicus gynecia (Mattox, 1949) – Mattox clam shrimp

Cyzicus mexicanus (Claus, 1860) – Mexican clam shrimp

Cyzicus morsei (Packard, 1883) – Morse clam shrimp

Cyzicus setosa (Pearse, 1912) – setose clam shrimp

References

Cyzicus (crustacean) Wikipedia

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