Phallocryptus spinosus (Milne Edwards, 1840)

Chergui, Isslam, Satour, Abdellatif, Bouzid, Abdelhakim, Koulali, Khaled & Samraoui, Boudjéma, 2023, Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Large Branchiopods in Algeria and a checklist update, Zootaxa 5336 (3), pp. 328-348 : 337

Phallocryptus spinosus (Milne Edwards, 1840)

Records in this study. Garaet Tarf, Garaet Guellif.

Previous records in the Algerian Sahara. Tilremt, Hassi R’mel ( Gauthier 1928a).

Previous records in the Hauts Plateaux and coastal area. Sebkhet Oran ( Gauthier 1928a), Boughzoul ( Beladjal et al. 1995b), Garaet Tarf, Garaet Guellif, Garaet Ank El Djmel, Garaet Ezzemoul ( Samraoui et al. 2006; Amarouayache 2014), Sebkhet Oran, Dayet Morsli, Macta Marshes, Garaet Ank El Djmel, Garaet Guellif, Sebkhet Djendli, Garaet Ezzemoul, Sebkhet Ain Yagout, Dayet Braya, Sebkhet Telamine, Sebkhet Sidi Chami (De Los Ríos-Escalante & Amarouayache 2016), Garaet Tarf, Chott Tinsilt, Sebkhet Djendli, Sebkhet Ouled Lembarek ( Rais & Amarouayache 2018).

Comments. The species occurs mainly in the Hauts Plateaux and has not been recorded in the northern Sahara in recent years. The species is also absent from the humid and subhumid regions of Morocco, where it is rare ( Thiéry 1987), and Tunisia ( Marrone et al. 2016).