Daphnia galeata

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Daphnia galeata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Order: Cladocera Family: Daphniidae Genus: Daphnia Species: D. galeata
Binomial name
Daphnia galeata
Subspecies
D. g. galeata D. g. mendotae

Daphnia galeata is a small species of planktonic crustacean. It lives in freshwater environments across a large area of the Northern Hemisphere, mostly in lakes.

D. galeata comprises two subspecies, D. g. galeata, found in the Old World, and D. g. mendotae, named after Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin, in the New World. D. g. mendotae may be a homoploid hybrid taxon ^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ D. J. Taylor, P. D. N. Herbert & J. K. Colbourne (1996). Phylogenetics and evolution of the Daphnia longispina group (Crustacea) based on 12S rDNA sequence and allozyme variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5 (3): 495–510. doi:10.1006/mpev.1996.0045.