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Moinidae

Moinidae is a crustacean family within the order Cladocera. Species within this family are widely occurring, including North America and Africa. In newer classifications, it is sometimes included in the family Daphniidae. Some Moinidae have accidentally been introduced by humans to areas outside of their native range. Genetics study strongly supports division of Moina into two faunistic groups: European-Western Siberian and Eastern Siberian-Far Eastern, with a transitional zone at the Yenisey River basin.

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Moinidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Subclass: Phyllopoda
Superorder: Diplostraca
Order: Anomopoda
Family: Moinidae
Goulden, 1968

Moinidae is a crustacean family within the order Cladocera.1 Species within this family are widely occurring, including North America and Africa.2 In newer classifications, it is sometimes included in the family Daphniidae.3 Some Moinidae have accidentally been introduced by humans to areas outside of their native range.4 Genetics study5 strongly supports division of Moina into two faunistic groups: European-Western Siberian and Eastern Siberian-Far Eastern, with a transitional zone at the Yenisey River basin (Eastern Siberia).

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Moinidae:6

  • Moina Baird, 1850
  • Moinodaphnia Herrick, 1887
References

References

  1. Clyde E. Goulden (1968). The Systematics and Evolution of the Moinidae. American Philosophical Society. pp. 1–101. ISBN 978-0-87169-586-4.
  2. C. Michael Hogan (2008). A. Burnham (ed.). "Makgadikgadi". The Megalithic Portal. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  3. Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132.
  4. Kotov, Alexey A.; Karabanov, Dmitry P.; Van Damme, Kay (2022-09-09). "Non-Indigenous Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): From a Few Notorious Cases to a Potential Global Faunal Mixing in Aquatic Ecosystems". Water. 14 (18): 2806. Bibcode:2022Water..14.2806K. doi:10.3390/w14182806. ISSN 2073-4441.
  5. Bekker, E.I.; Karabanov, D.P.; Galimov, Y.R.; Kotov, A.A. (2016-08-24). "DNA Barcoding Reveals High Cryptic Diversity in the North Eurasian Moina Species (Crustacea: Cladocera)". PLOS ONE. 11 (8) e0161737. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1161737B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161737. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4996527.
  6. "Moinidae". WoRMS, World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-11-24.