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The Russian Territory known as the Barents Region includes the large islands of Vaigatch and Kolguev, the archipelagos of Franz Joseph Land and Novaya Zemlya, and many small near shore islands in the Barents Sea subregion of the Arctic Ocean. With the exception of Franz Joseph Land, these islands and the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago are inhabited by seven species of large branchiopods: four species of Anostraca, Polyartemia forcipata S. Fischer, 1851, Artemiopsis bungei plovmornini Jaschnov, 1925, Branchinecta paludosa Müller, 1851 and Branchinectella media (Schmankewitsch, 1873); one Notostraca, Lepidurus arcticus (Kroyer, 1847); and two species of Spinicaudata, Caenestheria propinqua Sars, 1901 and C. sahlbergi (Simon, 1886). This is a richer large branchiopod fauna than occurs in other comparable land areas of the Arctic Ocean. The northern most known occurrence of Branchinecta paludosa is at Ivanov Bay on the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago. This report includes some life history observations.
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Vekhoff, N.V. (1997). Large branchiopod Crustacea (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata) of the Barents Region of Russia. In: Simovich, M.A., Sassaman, C., Belk, D. (eds) Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology and Conservation. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 125. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3177-5_8
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