Ceratophysella brevis (Christiansen & Bellinger 1980)
- Dataset
- An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Collembola
- family
- Hypogastruridae
- genus
- Ceratophysella
- species
- Ceratophysella brevis
description
ON Skidmore 1995 Remarks: As stated by Fjellberg (1985, p. 43), these records “ belong to a complex with several Nearctic forms / species, both described and undescribed, which are all poorly known and distinguished by rather small and dubious characters ”. Babenko & Fjellberg (2006) speculate that some of these forms, northern ones in particular, may be conspecific with C. czelnokovi, a widespread and highly variable East Palaearctic species (see also Babenko et al. 2017). General distribution: Nearctic.