Genus Daphnia O.F. Müller, 1785

Museums

Regional Maps

• Daphnia Muller, O.F. 1785. Entomostraea seu Insecta Testacea, quae in aquis Daniae et Norvegiae reperit, descripsit et inconibus illustravit. Lipsiae : Havniac pp. 1-135. [1].

  Type species:

   Daphnia longispina Müller, 1785 by original designation.
• Daphniopsis Sars, G.O. 1903. On the Crustacean fauna of central Asia. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte 8: 157-264 [171].

  Type species:

   Daphniopsis tibetana G.O. Sars, 1903 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Benzie, J.A.H. 2005. The genus Daphnia (including Daphniopsis). In, Dumont, H. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World (Zooplankton Guides). 368 pp.

Introduction

Species previously ascribed to the genus Daphniopsis belong to the subgenus Ctenodaphnia Dybowski & Grochowski, 1895 which now includes 17 Australian species. In all, the Australian fauna was shown to contain five distinct lineages including an endemic species that is the sole representative of the subgenus Australodaphnia Colbourne, Wilson & Hebert, 2006 (Colbourne et al., 2006).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Hampton (HAM), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Gascoyne (GAS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

General References

Colbourne, J.K., Wilson, C.C. & Hebert, P.D.N. 2006. The systematics of Australian Daphnia and Daphniopsis (Crustacea: Cladocera): a shared phylogenetic history transformed by habitat-specific rates of evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89: 469-488

Kotov, A.A. 2015. A critical review of the current taxonomy of the genus Daphnia O. F. Müller, 1785 (Anomopoda, Cladocera). Zootaxa 3911(2): 184–200

Popova, K.Y. & Kotov, A.A. 2013. Latitudinal patterns in the diversity of two subgenera of the genus Daphnia O.F. Müller (Crustacea: Cladocera: Daphniidae). Zootaxa 3736: 159–174

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