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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	27 025004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Moina micrura   Kurz, 1874
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups Family: 27 25 Moinidae (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: Freshwater Parent Codes: 27 025901     Moina spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was originally described from the Czech Republic, and recent genetic work has shown a high degree of differentiation between populations. It is highly likely that this species is not cosmopolitan and that Australian specimens belong to a different species.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:afc02e00-48e1-4cc5-8199-1f236d6f3ccb Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:345486 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-05-05 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Smirnov, N.N., Timms, B.V., 1983. A revision of the Australian Cladocera (Crustacea)., Records of the Australian Museum Supplement, Vol. 1: 1-132.
Scientific Name verified against:	Petrusk, A., Černý, M., Audenaert, E., 2004. Large intercontinental differentiation of Moina micrura (Crustacea: Anomopoda): one less cosmopolitan cladoceran?, Hydrobiologia, Vol. 526: 73-81.