Parartemiopsisshangrilaensis, a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) from Yunnan, with a key to the Chirocephalidae of China

Shu-Sen Shu; Xiao-Yong Chen; D Christopher Rogers; Laorsri Sanoamuang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1168.104005

Parartemiopsisshangrilaensis, a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) from Yunnan, with a key to the Chirocephalidae of China

Zookeys. 2023 Jul 4:1168:355-366. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1168.104005. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Shu-Sen Shu^{1

2

3}, Xiao-Yong Chen^{1

2}, D Christopher Rogers⁴, Laorsri Sanoamuang³

Affiliations

¹ Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
² State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of Gaoligong Mountain, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China.
³ Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand.
⁴ Kansas Biological Survey, and The Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66047-3759, USA.

Abstract

The fairy shrimp genus Parartemiopsis Rogers, 2005 currently contains a single species reported from Russia and Mongolia. In 2013, an unidentified Parartemiopsis population was reported from the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau in China's Yunnan Province, from Patatson National Park in Shangri-La County. Here, we describe the Chinese populations as a new species, Parartemiopsisshangrilaensissp. nov. This new species is distinguished from its congener, P.longicornis (Smirnov, 1930), by the form of the male second antennae and the gonopod. The discovery of P.shangrilaensissp. nov. extends the known distribution of the genus, and more Parartemiopsis species may be found in the future. We present a key to the genera and species of Chirocephalidae in China as an aid to future research.

Keywords: Asia; Tibetan Plateau; crustacean; diversity; freshwater; taxonomy.

Shu-Sen Shu, Xiao-Yong Chen, D. Christopher Rogers, Laorsri Sanoamuang.