Daphnia occidentalis

Daphnia occidentalis
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Branchiopoda
Order:	Anomopoda
Family:	Daphniidae
Genus:	Daphnia
Subgenus:	Australodaphnia Colbourne et al., 2006  [2]
Species:	D. occidentalis
Binomial name
Daphnia occidentalis Benzie, 1986  [3]

Daphnia occidentalis is a species of crustacean in the family Daphniidae. It is endemic to Australia, ^[1] and is the only species in the subgenus Australodaphnia. ^{[2] [4]}

References

1. Benzie, J. (1996). "Daphnia occidentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T6256A12592584. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6256A12592584.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
2. J. K. Colbourne; C. C. Wilson; P. D. N. Hebert (2006). "The systematics of Australian Daphnia and Daphniopsis (Crustacea: Cladocera): a shared phylogenetic history transformed by habitat-specific rates of evolution" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 89 (3): 469–488. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00687.x . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
3. John A. H. Benzie (1986). "Daphnia occidentalis, 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 . 6 (2): 232–245. doi:10.2307/1547984. JSTOR   1547984.
4. A. Kotov; L. Forró; N. M. Korovchinsky; A. Petrusek (March 2, 2012). "Crustacea-Cladocera checkList" (PDF). World checklist of freshwater Cladocera species. Belgian Biodiversity Platform. Retrieved October 29, 2012.