A preliminary analysis of the cercopod setation pattern of Algerian anostraca (Crustacea) species

The position, number and length of the setae on the cercopods of Anostraca species are graphically represented and analysed. All species found in Algeria are used as examples. This revealed significant differences among the representatives of the genera Artemia, Branchinella, Branchipus, Chirocephalus, Streptocephalus and Tanymastigites, and between the related congeners Streptocephalus torvicornis and S. rubricaudatus, and Tanymastigites perrieri and T. mzabica.