Cladocera
Creators: name: Sousa, Francisco Diogo Rocha
name: Elmoor-Loureiro, Lourdes Maria Abdu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cladocera

description: Identification key for the orders and families of Cladocera
1a Six pairs of foliaceous thoracic appendages,morphologically similar.....................................................................................Order Ctenopoda Sars,1865 (2)
1b Five or six pairs of thoracic appendages,morphologically distinct........................................................................................Order Anomopoda Sars,1865 (3)
2a Antenna with one branch,without lateral setae .................................................................................................................. Holopedidae Sars,1865 (Fig.1A)
2b Antenna with two branches,external branch (exopodite) with numerous lateral setae.............................................................. Sididae Baird,1850 (Fig.1B)
3a Antennule non-movable,fused with rostrum................................................................................................................... Bosminidae Baird,1845 (Fig.1 C-D)
3b Antennule movable,not fused with rostrum......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
4a Antennule with two segments................................................................................................. Ilyocryptidae Smirnov 1976 emend. Smirnov,1992 (Fig.1 E-F)
4b Antennule not segmented..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
5a Postanal part of postabdomen narrow and conical,distalmost marginal denticle generally bifurcate ................................. Moinidae Baird,1850 (Fig.1 G-H)
5b Postanal part of postabdomen not conical ............................................................................................................................................................................6
6a Internal branch (endopodite) of antenna with four segments and external branch (exopodite) with three segments.......................................................... 7
6b Antenna with three segments on the internal (endopodite) and external branches (exopodite)...........................................................................................8
7a Antennule inserted or articulated on the posteroventral part of head.................................................................................. Daphniidae Straus,1820 (Fig.1I)
7b Antennule articulated on the anteroventral part of head ............................................................................... Macrothricidae Norman & Brady,1867 (Fig. 1J)
8a Anal aperture positioned in the distal part of postabdomen........................................ Eurycercidae Kurz,1865 sensu Dumont & Silva-Briano,1998 (Fig.1K)
8b Anal aperture positioned in the dorsal margin of postabdomen ................................. Chydoridae Dybowski & Grochowski,1894 emend. Frey,1967 (Fig.1L)
description: Published as part of Sousa, Francisco Diogo Rocha & Elmoor-Loureiro, Lourdes Maria Abdu, 2019, Identification key for the Brazilian species and subspecies of the family Ilyocryptidae (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anomopoda), pp. 1-8 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 59 on page 4, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.23, http://zenodo.org/record/4613798