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.[3][4]

Daphnia occidentalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anomopoda
Family: Daphniidae
Genus: Daphnia
Subgenus: Australodaphnia
Colbourne et al., 2006 [3]
Species:
D. occidentalis
Binomial name
Daphnia occidentalis
Benzie, 1986 [2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Benzie, J. (1996). "Daphnia occidentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6256A12592584. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6256A12592584.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  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. ^ a b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  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.