Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Family | 2 subtaxa | 4 references | |||||
Family | 1 references |
Infraorder | Cladocera (water fleas) |
Suborder | ONYCHOCAUDATA (a suborder of crustaceans) |
Order | DIPLOSTRACA (water fleas) |
Subclass | PHYLLOPODA (apuses and water fleas) |
Class | BRANCHIOPODA (branchiopods) |
Subphylum | CRUSTACEA (crustaceans) |
Phylum | ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
Superphylum | ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) |
Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cladocera (water fleas) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Anon. | The Cladocera Interest Group | www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/cladocera/photos.asp | ||
Scourfield, D.J. & Harding, J.P. | 1966 | A Key to the British Species of Freshwater Cladocera | FBA Scientific Publication, No. 5, 55pp, Freshwater Biological Association | |
Freshwater | ||||
Gledhill, T. & Wallace, I. | 2010 | Module 9: advanced identification of miscellaneous taxa including Crustacea | https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course | |
Marine | ||||
() | Conway, D.V.P. | 2012 | Marine Zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 2: Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Cladocera, Facetotecta, Cirripedia and Copepoda | Occasional Publications, No. 25, 163pp, Marine Biological Association |
Cladocera (water fleas) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Chalkley, A. & Robson, H. | Cladocera News | Published for/by:Chalkley, A. & Robson, H. | |
Chalkley, A. | 2017 | An Atlas of Water Fleas - Species Maps for Britain and Ireland | |
Makrushin, A.V. & Markevich, G.I. | 1982 | On the formation of ephippia in some Cladocera (Crustacea) | . |
Microscopy | |||
Anon. | Microscope discussion group |
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Cladocera (water fleas):
BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 128 images of Cladocera (water fleas) |
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