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Family | 5 subtaxa | 125 images | |||||
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Family | 1 subtaxa | 3 images | 1 ident. refs | ||||
| Subtaxon | Example images | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
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Family | 5 subtaxa | 125 images | |||||
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Family | 1 subtaxa | 3 images | 1 ident. refs | ||||
| 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) |
| Author | Year | Title | Source | |
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Anon. | The Cladocera Interest Group | www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/cladocera/photos.asp | |
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Scourfield, D.J. & Harding, J.P. | 1966 | A Key to the British Species of Freshwater Cladocera | FBA Scientific Publication, No. 5, 55pp, Freshwater Biological Association |
Freshwater | ||||
| Gledhill, T. & Wallace, I. | 2010 | Module 9: advanced identification of miscellaneous taxa including Crustacea | https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course | |
Marine | ||||
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Conway, D.V.P. | 2012 | Marine Zooplankton of southern Britain. Part 2: Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Cladocera, Facetotecta, Cirripedia and Copepoda | Occasional Publications, No. 25, 163pp, Marine Biological Association |
Cladocera (water fleas) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
 NBN (data.nbn.org.uk)
has a distribution map for Cladocera (water fleas)
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 BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Cladocera (water fleas)
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