Mexican clam shrimp

Cyzicus mexicanus

Classification

Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Diplostraca
Family: Cyzicidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Mexican clam shrimp

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