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Triops vicentinus

Triops vicentinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Notostraca
Family: Triopsidae
Genus: Triops
Species: T. vicentinus
Binomial name
Triops vicentinus
Korn, Machado, Cristo & Cancela da Fonseca, 2010

Triops vincentinus is a species of freshwater crustacean tadpole shrimps.

It is endemic to Portugal, and only found within the Faro District.

It diverged from Triops cancriformis about 180 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic Epoch.


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