Daphnia occidentalis

Daphnia occidentalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Cladocera
Family: Daphniidae
Genus: Daphnia
Subgenus: Australodaphnia
Colbourne et al., 2006 [1]
Species: D. occidentalis
Binomial name
Daphnia occidentalis
Benzie, 1986 [2]

Daphnia occidentalis is a species of crustacean in the family Daphniidae. It is endemic to Australia,[3] and is the only species in the subgenus Australodaphnia.[4][1]

References

  1. 1 2 J. K. Colbourne, C. C. Wilson & P. D. N. Hebert (2006). "The systematics of Australian Daphnia and Daphniopsis (Crustacea: Cladocera): a shared phylogenetic history transformed by habitat-specific rates of evolution" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89 (3): 469–488. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00687.x.
  2. John A. H. Benzie (1986). "Daphnia occidentalis, new species (Cladocera: Daphniidae) from western Australia: new evidence on the evolution of the North American D. ambiguaD. middendorffiana group". Journal of Crustacean Biology 6 (2): 232–245. doi:10.2307/1547984. JSTOR 1547984.
  3. J. Benzie (1996). "Daphnia occidentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved August 9, 2007.
  4. A. Kotov, L. Forró, N. M. Korovchinsky & A. Petrusek (March 2, 2012). "Crustacea-Cladocera checkList" (PDF). World checklist of freshwater Cladocera species. Belgian Biodiversity Platform. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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