Dendrocephalus
Creators: name: Rabet, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Anostraca
Thamnocephalidae
Dendrocephalus

description: Key to males of all known species of the subgenus Dendrocephalus
1 Proximal anterior surface of frontal appendage arms without spines ........................... 2
- Proximal anterior surface of frontal appendage arms with at least one spine............... 5
2 Branch 1V anterior sub-branch with distal portion swollen ......................................... 3
- Branch 1V anterior sub-branch with distal portion ending acutely ....... D. sarmentosus
3 Eye bearing a spine ....................................................................................................... 4
- Eye without a spine .................................................................................. D. brasiliensis
4 Branch 2D sub-branch I with only small spines and sub-branch III with 2 medial large spines .................................................................................................................. D. geayi
- Branch 2D sub-branch I with several long basal spines and sub-branch III with 1 large basal spine ............................................................................................... D. vezenolanus
5 Frontal appendage arms with anterior surface with more than one spine..................... 6
- Frontal appendage arms with anterior surface with one spine .................... D. orientalis
6 Branch 1V anterior sub- branch with distal portion swollen ........................................ 7
- Branch 1V anterior sub- branch with distal portion acute .......................................... 10
7 Branch 2A podiform...................................................................................................... 8
- Branch 2A not podiform .......................................................................... D. cervicornis
8 First thoracopod endopodite bearing a non prominent distolateral border with spines 9
- First thoracopod endopodite with prominent distolateral border with spines .. D. affinis
9 First thoracopod endopodite with basolateral projection smooth and acute D. cornutus
- First thoracopod endopodite with basolateral projection bearing several spines............ .......................................................................................................................... D. thieryi
10 Branch 2A podiform.................................................................................................... 11
- Branch 2A hook shaped ............................................................................ D. argentinus
11 First thoracopod endopodite with basolateral projection smooth and acute ............... 12
- First thoracopod endopodite with basolateral projection bearing several spines............ .................................................................................................................... D. goiasensis
12 Second thoracopod endopodite with basolateral projection smooth and acute............... ............................................................................................................... D. spartaenovae
- Second thoracopod endopodite without any basolateral projection ............ D. conosuris
description: Published as part of Rabet, Nicolas, 2006, A new species of Brazilian Dendrocephalus (Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae), pp. 49-57 in Zootaxa 1370 on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174911