Tags: Crustacean.

Branchinella alachua is a species of crustacean in the family Thamnocephalidae. It was described in 1953 by Ralph W. Dexter based on material collected in 1947 by I. J. Cantrall; 11 male individuals of the new species were discovered among Cantrall’s collection of Streptocephalus seali. B. alachua is only known from the type locality a temporary pool in Alachua County Florida from which its specific epithet derives. It is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List.

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