Cladocera
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Description: Offers an illustrated body plan of a daphnia or water flea, with a numbered key, and details of the major features of its anatomy.
About 450 species, 0.2 - 6 mm (Leptodora kindtii 18 mm). The group of the Cladocera is a subdivision of the large aquatic arthropod class, the crustacea. Within these, the cladocera are subsumed in a group which is called Phyllopoda (gr.= leave-like feet). This is due to a phylogenetic reorganisation of the arthropod extremity which in the Cladocera no more shows the typical pattern of distinctive parts but resembles more a leave-like structure. Cladocera mainly inhabit fresh waters, only eight species are real marine animals. Their main feeding source is phytoplankton which they filter through the hole left by the carapax.
Size: 631 chars
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| Page title: | CLADOCERA |
| Keywords: | cladocera, water fleas, crustacea |
| Description: | description of cladocera |
| IP-address: | 80.67.17.5 |
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| Date | Changed: 2013-08-09T14:27:15+02:00 Changed: 2003-08-25T10:33:47+02:00 Changed: 2003-08-25T10:33:47+02:00 |