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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Branchiopoda (class)  »  Diplostraca (order)  »  Daphniidae (family)

CAAB Code: 27 021026 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Daphnia (Australodaphnia) occidentalis   Benzie, 1986

Rank: Species
Alternative Scientific Name: Daphnia occidentalis    Benzie, 1986
CAAB category: 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups
Family: 27 21 Daphniidae (water fleas) - show full list
Common Name: [a water flea]
Organism Type: a water flea
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 27 021902     Daphnia spp.
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Record source: Benzie, J.A.H., 1986. Daphnia occidentalis, a 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, Vol. 6(2): 232-245.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Colbourne, J.K., Wilson, C.C., Hebert, P.D.N., 2006. The systematics of Australian Daphnia and Daphniopsis (Crustacea: Cladocera): a shared phylogenetic history transformed by habitat-specific rates of evolution., Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 89: 469-488.
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