Daphnia jollyi

Daphnia jollyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Cladocera
Family: Daphniidae
Genus: Daphnia
Species: D. jollyi
Binomial name
Daphnia jollyi
Petkovski, 1973

Daphnia jollyi is a species of crustacean in the genus Daphnia. It is endemic to Western Australia,[1] where it lives in shallow freshwater pools over granite bedrock.[2] Daphnia jollyi is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.[3]

References

  1. John A. H. Benzie & Ian A. E. Bayly (1996). "Male and ephippial female Daphnia jollyi Petkovski, 1973 discovered in Western Australia and the parthenogenetic female redescribed". Hydrobiologia. 331 (1–3): 171–181. doi:10.1007/BF00025419.
  2. J. K. Colbourne; C. C. Wilson & P. D. N. Hebert (2006). "The systematics of Australian Daphnia and Daphniopsis (Crustacea: Cladocera): a shared phylogenetic history transformed by habitat-specific rates of evolution" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 89 (3): 469–488. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00687.x.
  3. J. Benzie (1996). "Daphnia jollyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3 (2.3). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 9 August 2007.


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