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The species of the anostracan genus Eubranchipus Verrill, 1870 can be recognized as belonging to the same taxon and unambiguously distinguished from all other taxa in the family Chirocephalidae Daday, 1910 by the common morphology of their eversible penes. These reproductive structures are short, fat, and cylindrical with a single long, thin spine on the lateral margin at the tip of each penis. This ends the erroneous perception of Eubranchipus as a New World genus and recognizes it as an old taxon with members distributed across the modern continents that once comprised Laurasia.
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Belk, D. (1995). Uncovering the Laurasian roots of Eubranchipus . In: Belk, D., Dumont, H.J., Maier, G. (eds) Studies on Large Branchiopod Biology and Aquaculture II. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 103. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0291-9_22
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