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Pseudopenilia

Pseudopenilia bathyalis is a species of diplostracan, described in 2004, that lives at depths of 1,900–2,140 m (6,230–7,020 ft) in the anoxic zone of the Black Sea. Originally described in the family Sididae, it was transferred to its own family, the Pseudopenilidae, in 2008.

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Pseudopenilia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Ctenopoda
Family: Pseudopenilidae
Korovchinsky & Sergeeva, 2008
Genus: Pseudopenilia
Sergeeva, 2004
Species:
P. bathyalis
Binomial name
Pseudopenilia bathyalis
Sergeeva, 2004

Pseudopenilia bathyalis is a species of diplostracan, described in 2004, that lives at depths of 1,900–2,140 m (6,230–7,020 ft) in the anoxic zone of the Black Sea.1 Originally described in the family Sididae, it was transferred to its own family, the Pseudopenilidae, in 2008.2

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  1. Н. Г. Сергеева (N. G. Sergeeva) (2004). "Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda) – обитатель сероводородной зоны Черного моря" [Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda), an inhabitant of the hydrogen-sulphide zone of the Black Sea] (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii (in Ukrainian). 38 (3): 37–42.
  2. Nikolai M. Korovchinsky & Nelli G. Sergeeva (2008). "A new family of the order Ctenopoda (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the depths of the Black Sea" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 1795: 57–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1795.1.4.