Water Flea: Scientific Classification

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Water Flea: Scientific Classification

#1 Post by 75RR » Thu May 11, 2017 12:05 pm

Following some questions on Water Flea identification viewtopic.php?f=13&p=44753#p44753 & viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4907 I decided to see if I could find a Water Flea scientific classification diagram.
Had no luck so made one based on Wiki. Started at Crustacea and worked my way down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean

As in all these things, corrections are welcome ...

The Families in green are the ones that appear in the initial Cladocera page of the Center for Freshwater Biology Key:
http://cfb.unh.edu/cfbkey/html/choices/ ... 11/11.html

Wiki only included Genus for the Daphniidae family so the chart has some way to go yet, but one can see that calling all Water Fleas ... Daphnia, is a bit hit and miss.

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Zeiss Standard WL (somewhat fashion challenged) & Wild M8
Olympus E-P2 (Micro Four Thirds Camera)

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Re: Water Flea: Scientific Classification

#2 Post by rabitt » Thu May 11, 2017 4:42 pm

75RR,
Thank you for the Cart. Do you mind if copy it?
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Re: Water Flea: Scientific Classification

#3 Post by 75RR » Thu May 11, 2017 5:06 pm

Help yourself

Note that I have added quite a useful Crustacean ID Guide to the Resources (online, books etc.) section called:

Practical Guide to Identifying Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton
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Re: Water Flea: Scientific Classification

#4 Post by billbillt » Fri May 12, 2017 6:12 am

Thanks for the chart 75RR..

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