Daphniidae
| Daphniidae | |
|---|---|
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| Daphnia pulex | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Cladocera |
| Suborder: | Anomopoda |
| Family: | Daphniidae Straus, 1820 |
Daphniidae is a family of water fleas in the sub-order Anomopoda.
Description
Members of the family Daphniidae differ from other, similar cladocerans, such as Macrotrichidae and Moinidae, in that the antennae of females are short and immobile.[1]
Ecology
The feeding mechanism of the members of the family Daphniidae differs from that of 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
The family Daphniidae contains 121 species in five genera:[3][4][5]
- Ceriodaphnia Dana, 1853
- Daphnia O. F. Müller, 1785
- Megafenestra Dumont & Pensaert, 1983
- Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858
- Simocephalus Schoedler, 1858
The members of the family Moinidae may also be placed among the Daphniidae.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ 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). Petter Larsson & Lawrence J. Weider, ed. "Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cladocera, held in Bergen, Norway, 9–16 August 1993". Hydrobiologia. Issue 107 of Developments in Hydrobiology (Springer) 307 (1–3): 57–68. doi:10.1007/BF00031997. ISBN 978-0-7923-3471-2.
|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ L. Forró, N. M. Korovchinsky, A. A. Kotov & A. Petrusek (2008). Estelle V. Balian, Christian Lévêque, Hendrik Segers & Koen Martens, ed. "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. Developments in Hydrobiology 198 595 (1): 177–184. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9013-5. ISBN 978-1-4020-8259-7.
|chapter=ignored (help) doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_19 - ↑ WoRMS (2010). "Daphniidae". World Register of Marine Species. 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.
External links
Data related to Daphniidae at Wikispecies
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