Nebalia

Nebalia
Nebalia bipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Leptostraca
Family:	Nebaliidae
Genus:	Nebalia Leach, 1814
Type species
Nebalia herbstii Leach, 1814

Nebalia is a large genus of small crustaceans containing more than half of the species in the order Leptostraca, ^[1] and was first described by William Elford Leach in 1814. ^[2] The genus contains over thirty species: ^[3]

• Nebalia abyssicola Ledoyer, 1997
• Nebalia antarctica Dahl, 1990
• Nebalia biarticulata Ledoyer, 1997
• Nebalia bipes (Fabricius, 1780)
• Nebalia borealis Dahl, 1985
• Nebalia brucei Olesen, 1999
• Nebalia cannoni Dahl, 1990
• Nebalia capensisBarnard, 1914
• Nebalia clausi Dahl, 1985
• Nebalia dahli Kazmi & Tirmizi, 1989
• Nebalia daytoni Vetter, 1996
• Nebalia falklandensis Dahl, 1990
• Nebalia geoffroyi Milne-Edwards, 1928
• Nebalia gerkenae Haney & Martin, 2000
• Nebalia herbstii Leach, 1814
• Nebalia hessleri Martin, Vetter & Cash-Clark, 1996
• Nebalia ilheoensis Kensley, 1976
• Nebalia kensleyi Haney & Martin, 2005
• Nebalia kocatasi Moreira, Kocak & Katagan, 2007
• Nebalia lagartensis Escobar-Briones & Villalobos-Hiriart, 1995
• Nebalia longicornis Thomson, 1879
• Nebalia marerubri Wägele, 1983
• Nebalia melanophthalma Ledoyer, 2002
• Nebalia mortoni Lee & Bamber, 2011 ^[4]
• Nebalia neocaledoniensis Ledoyer, 2002
• Nebalia patagonica Dahl, 1990
• Nebalia reboredae Moreira & Urgorri, 2009
• Nebalia schizophthalma Haney, Hessler & Martin, 2001
• Nebalia strausi Risso, 1826
• Nebalia troncosoi Moreira, Cacabelos & Dominguez, 2003
• Nebalia villalobosi Ortiz, Winfield & Chazaro-Olvera, 2011

Parasites

• Nebalia species are the hosts of the unique rotifers of family Seisonidae. ^[5]

References

1. Todd Haney (2004). "Classification". Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2007.
2. Leach, W. E. (1814). Zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. Vol. 1. pp. 1–137 [99].
3. Jan Mees (2011). "Nebalia Leach, 1814". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved November 4, 2011.
4. Christine N. W. Lee & Roger N. Bamber (2011). "A new species of Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 3091: 51–59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3091.1.4.
5. Ricci, Claudia; Melone, Giulio; Sotgia, Cristina (1993). "Old and new data on Seisonidea (Rotifera)". Hydrobiologia. 255–256: 495–511. doi:10.1007/BF00025879.