Cladocera Latreille, 1829
(water fleas)

Cladocera (water fleas) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
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Family 2 subtaxa 4 references
Family 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
InfraorderCladocera (water fleas)
SuborderONYCHOCAUDATA (a suborder of crustaceans)
OrderDIPLOSTRACA (water fleas)
SubclassPHYLLOPODA (apuses and water fleas)
ClassBRANCHIOPODA (branchiopods)
SubphylumCRUSTACEA (crustaceans)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cladocera (water fleas)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Anon. The Cladocera Interest Group www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/cladocera/photos.asp
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

() 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:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Chalkley, A. & Robson, H. Cladocera News Published for/by:Chalkley, A. & Robson, H.
Chalkley, A. 2017 An Atlas of Water Fleas - Species Maps for Britain and Ireland
Makrushin, A.V. & Markevich, G.I. 1982 On the formation of ephippia in some Cladocera (Crustacea) .

Microscopy

Anon. Microscope discussion group

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Cladocera (water fleas):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 128 images of Cladocera (water fleas)
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