Daphnia occidentalis
Daphnia occidentalis is a species of crustacean in the family Daphniidae. It is endemic to Australia,[1] and is the only species in the subgenus Australodaphnia.[2][4]
| Daphnia occidentalis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Cladocera |
| Family: | Daphniidae |
| Genus: | Daphnia |
| Subgenus: | Australodaphnia Colbourne et al., 2006 [2] |
| Species: | D. occidentalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Daphnia occidentalis Benzie, 1986 [3] | |
References
- J. Benzie (1996). "Daphnia occidentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6256A12592584. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6256A12592584.en.
- 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.
- John A. H. Benzie (1986). "Daphnia occidentalis, new species (Cladocera: Daphniidae) from western Australia: new evidence on the evolution of the North American D. ambigua–D. middendorffiana group". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 6 (2): 232–245. doi:10.2307/1547984. JSTOR 1547984.
- 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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