. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 184 Annals of the South African Museum. attention may be directed to one or two outstanding features of the distribution and composition of the Phyllopod fauna. Following Daday, 11 families are recognised : 5 in the Anostraca, 1 in the Notostraca, and 5 in the Conchostraca. All these families are represented in our region with the exception of the Anostracan family. Fig. 2.—Distribution of : Q Cyclestheria, n Eulimnadia africana, A Apus nama- quensis, • Leptestheriella, x Artemia salina. The recorded
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 184 Annals of the South African Museum. attention may be directed to one or two outstanding features of the distribution and composition of the Phyllopod fauna. Following Daday, 11 families are recognised : 5 in the Anostraca, 1 in the Notostraca, and 5 in the Conchostraca. All these families are represented in our region with the exception of the Anostracan family. Fig. 2.—Distribution of : Q Cyclestheria, n Eulimnadia africana, A Apus nama- quensis, • Leptestheriella, x Artemia salina. The recorded localities are merely linked up, without any implication that the species occurs everywhere within, and nowhere outside, the polygonal areas so formed. Polyartemiidae, which hitherto has only been found in the Palaearctic region (with extensions to Alaska and the Pribiloff Islands). The other families are nearly world-wide in distribution, the apparent poverty of South America being probably due to lack of collecting. As regards genera, 37 genera are known up to the present : * 22 Anostracan, 2 Notostracan, and 13 Conchostracan. Only 12 of these are represented in South Africa—5, 1, and 7 respectively. The * Excluding Bouvieria Daday (see Intern. Catal., xiii, Crust., p. 40, 1914) and Proterothriops Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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