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Daphniidae
Daphnia pulex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anomopoda
Family: Daphniidae
Straus, 1820

Daphniidae is a family of water fleas in the order Anomopoda.

Description[edit]

Members of the family Daphniidae differ from other, similar diplostracans, such as the Macrotrichidae and Moinidae, in that the antennae of females are short and immobile.[1]

Ecology[edit]

The feeding mechanism of the members of the family Daphniidae differs from that of the Macrotrichidae in allowing the animals to engage in filter feeding, rather than having to scrape food from a surface. They have evolved to fill a number of different ecological niches. Scapholeberis and Megafenestra contain species adapted to living around the surface film; Simocephalus species cling to objects while filter feeding; others have developed a pelagic lifestyle.[2]

Taxonomy[edit]

The family Daphniidae contains 121 species in five genera:[3][4][5]

The members of the family Moinidae may also be placed among the Daphniidae.[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ William David Williams (1980). "Arachnids and crustaceans". Australian Freshwater Life: the Invertebrates of Australian Inland Waters (2nd ed.). Macmillan Education. pp. 118–184. ISBN 978-0-333-29894-7.
  • ^ Geoffrey Fryer (1995). "Phylogeny and adaptive radiation within the Anomopoda: a preliminary exploration". In Petter Larsson; Lawrence J. Weider (eds.). Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cladocera, held in Bergen, Norway, 9–16 August 1993. Issue 107 of Developments in Hydrobiology. Springer. doi:10.1007/BF00031997. ISBN 978-0-7923-3471-2.
  • ^ L. Forró; N. M. Korovchinsky; A. A. Kotov; A. Petrusek (2008). "Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 177–184. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9013-5.
  • ^ "Daphniidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  • ^ "Daphniidae Straus, 1820". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  • ^ Joel W. Martin; George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2010-10-18.

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