Daphnia occidentalis
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Daphnia occidentalis is a species of crustacean
in the family Daphniidae
. It is endemic to Australia
.
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
in the family Daphniidae
Daphniidae
Daphniidae is a family in the order Cladocera . Species within this family occur in several places within Africa including Lake Chad in northwest Africa and in the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana...
. It is endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Source
- Benzie, J. 1996. Daphnia occidentalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 August 2007.