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Daphnia pulex (Water flea)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Daphnia pulex (D. pulex) is the most common species of water flea. It has a cosmopolitan distribution: the species is found throughout the Americas, Europe and Australia. It is a model species, and was the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Coastal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central & Western Europe Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Il-Ballut (l/o Marsaxlokk) 58 Malta    

Prey / Diet

Ascomorpha ecaudis[2]
Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[2]
Chroococcus dispersus[2]
Keratella cochlearis[2]
Microcystis aeruginosa[2]

Predators

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3"Seasonal Food Habits of Bull Trout from a Small Alpine Lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains", Frank M. Wilhelm, Brian R. Parker, David W. Schindler & David B. Donald, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 128, Issue 6, 1999
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0