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  Suborder Anomopoda

Family Daphniidae

    Genus Ceriodaphnia -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Daphnia -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Scapholeberis -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Simocephalus -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Daphniopsis -- North America.
    Genus Megafenestra -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Daphniidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Daphniidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific, Antarctic; 121 species in 5 genera worldwide, 58 Nearctic species in 5 genera] (Forró et al., 2008).
• Daphnidae [sic], [North America] (Smith, 2001).
• Daphnidae [sic], [North America] (Brooks, 1959).

Bibliography

• Forró, L. N.M. Korovchinsky, A.A. Kotov & A. Petrusek. 2008. Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 177-184. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Cladoceran Branchiopoda (Water fleas). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 453-488.
• Brooks, J.L. 1959. Cladocera. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 587-656.

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