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The name is given in the attached along with other information. DW ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] name of fairy-shrimp in Blomidon Park woodland pond > Hi Jim, June 12, 2011 > I don't have time to dig out the suitable sources but the individual > who describes a species is the Author not the Authority. This is a very > common mistake that just keeps spreading out like ripples in a pond. > > DW > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>; "Jim Wolford" > <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Cc: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:17 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] name of fairy-shrimp in Blomidon Park woodland pond > > >> Sorry this has taken me so long to remember to look it up, but the name >> of the fairy shrimp in the woodland pond of Blomidon Prov. Park (was it >> Stephen Shaw who asked?) is Eubranchipus intricatus (should be in >> Italics, of course). And the name should also include the authority and >> date, which in this case is Hartland-Rowe, 1967. >> >> This species is widely distributed in Canada west of Nova Scotia, from >> Quebec west to B.C., but its discovery in May of 1988 in this pond was >> the first confirmed record for fairy shrimp in Nova Scotia. Since then >> the same species was found just north of Somerset School northeast of >> Berwick, also in King's County, Nova Scotia, but nowhere else. Annual >> field trips to the Blomidon Park pond in late May have confirmed the >> continual presence of this species up to 2011. >> >> The original identification to species was made by Graham Daborn of >> Acadia University, and this discovery in 1988 was by Pierre Taschereau >> of Dalhousie University, who was leading a park field trip in which I >> was a participant. I rapidly collected some specimens, hopefully with >> an appropriate permit from Dept. of Lands and Forests (now Natural >> Resources), and delivered them to Daborn. He identified them to >> species, and then documented the discovery with a paper published in >> Canadian Field Naturalist journal, Vol 105, issue 4, pp. 571-572, of >> 1992, written by Daborn with co-authors Wolford and Taschereau. >> >> This paper also states that the arctic fairy shrimp, Branchinecta >> paludosa (Muller, 1788), was apparently represented in a collection >> received in December of 1928, with the locality given as "Taylor Harbor, >> Nova Scotia", which researcher R.W. Dexter in 1958 thought may have been >> really Taylor Head on the Eastern Shore. Daborn did a search there in >> 1975 (unpublished) but found no fairy shrimps. >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1511/3689 - Release Date: 06/08/11 >> >
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