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Cladocera (water flea)

Branchiopoda - Cladocera

Taxonomy
Cladocera was named by Latreille (1829). It is extant.

It was assigned to Crustacea by Jell and Duncan (1986); and to Cladoceromorpha by Schwentner et al. (2018).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Cladocera Latreille
1986Cladocera Jell and Duncan p. 191
2018Cladocera Schwentner et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
classBranchiopodaLatreille 1817
subclassPhyllopoda
infraclassDiplostraca(Gerstecker 1866)
OnychocaudataOlesen and Richter 2013
CladoceromorphaAx 1999
orderCladoceraLatreille 1829
orderCladoceraLatreille 1829

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Or. Cladocera Latreille 1829 [water flea]
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Subor. Anomopoda Sars 1865
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Invalid names: Daphniidae Strauss 1820 [empty]
G. Daphnia Muller 1785
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Daphnia fossilis von Heyden 1862
Daphnia primaeva M'Coy 1849
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available