Species | Daphnia pulex (a water flea) |
Genus | Daphnia (water fleas) |
Family | DAPHNIIDAE (a family of water fleas) |
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 Daphnia pulex (a water flea) |
Daphnia pulex (a water flea) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Hunter, K. & Pyle, G. | 2004 | Morphological responses of Daphnia pulex to Chaoborus americanus kairomone in the presence and absence of metals | Environ Toxicol Chem Vol 23 (5): 1311-1316. |
Kleiven, O.T., Larsson, P. & Hobaek, A. | 1996 | Direct distributional response in Daphnia pulex to a predator kairomone | J. Plankton Res. Vol 18 (8): 1341-1348. |
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Daphnia pulex (a water flea):
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