Moinidae is a
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
family within the order
Cladocera. Species within this family are widely occurring, including North America and Africa. In newer classifications, it is sometimes included in the family
Daphniidae
Daphniidae is a family of water fleas in the order Anomopoda.
Description
Members of the family Daphniidae differ from other, similar diplostracans, such as the Macrotrichidae and Moinidae, in that the antennae of females are short and immobi ...
.
Genera
These two genera belong to the family Moinidae:
[
* '' Moina'' Baird, 1850
* '' Moinodaphnia'' Herrick, 1887
]
References
Cladocera
Crustacean families
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