Moina

Moina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Superorder: Diplostraca
Order: Anomopoda
Family: Moinidae
Genus: Moina
Baird, 1850 
Type species
Moina brachiata
(Jurine, 1820) 

Moina is a genus of crustacean within the family Moinidae, which are part of the group referred to as water fleas; they are related to the larger-bodied Daphnia species such as Daphnia magna and Daphnia pulex, though not closely. This genus was first described by W. Baird in 1850.

Moina demonstrates the ability to survive in habitats with adverse biological conditions, these being waters containing low oxygen levels and of a high salinity and other impurities; these habitats include salt pans but also eutrophic water bodies. An example of such an extreme habitat is the highly saline Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana, which support prolific numbers of Moina belli. The genus is also known from bodies of water across Eurasia, where research indicated previously unknown species diversity in Northern Eurasia, including Japan and China; the newly described groups includes a number of phylogroups were discovered from Northern Eurasia, four new Moina species from Japan, and five new lineages in China. According to genetic data, the genus Moina is divided into two genetic lineages: the European-Western Siberian and Eastern Siberian-Far Eastern, with a transitional zone at the Yenisei River basin of Eastern Siberia.

At least four species of Moina are known to have been introduced to non-native waterways.

Species

Moina contains these species:

References

  1. 1 2 "Moina". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ↑ "Moina". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. October 8, 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Moinidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  4. ↑ Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1884). Annual Report: Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota.
  5. ↑ BOLD Systems: Moina {genus} - Arthropoda; Branchiopoda; Diplostraca; Moinidae;
  6. ↑ Vignatti, Alicia María; Cabrera, Gabriela Cecilia; Echaniz, Santiago Andrés (2013). "Distribution and biological aspects of the introduced species Moina macrocopa (Straus, 1820) (Crustacea, Cladocera) in the semi-arid central region of Argentina". Biota Neotropica. 13 (3): 86–92. doi:10.1590/S1676-06032013000300011.
  7. ↑ C. Michael Hogan (2008). "Makgadikgadi". The Megalithic Portal.
  8. ↑ Makino, Wataru; Machida, Ryuji J.; Okitsu, Jiro; Usio, Nisikawa (2020-02-01). "Underestimated species diversity and hidden habitat preference in Moina (Crustacea, Cladocera) revealed by integrative taxonomy". Hydrobiologia. 847 (3): 857–878. doi:10.1007/s10750-019-04147-3. S2CID 209332097.
  9. ↑ Bekker, Eugeniya I.; Karabanov, Dmitry P.; Galimov, Yan R.; Kotov, Alexey A. (2016-08-24). "DNA Barcoding Reveals High Cryptic Diversity in the North Eurasian Moina Species (Crustacea: Cladocera)". PLOS ONE. 11 (8) e0161737. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1161737B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161737. PMC 4996527. PMID 27556403.
  10. ↑ Ni, Yijun; Ma, Xiaolin; Hu, Wei; Blair, David; Yin, Mingbo (2019-05-01). "New lineages and old species: Lineage diversity and regional distribution of Moina (Crustacea: Cladocera) in China". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 134: 87–98. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.007. PMID 30753887. S2CID 73443721.
  11. ↑ Kotov, Alexey A.; Karabanov, Dmitry P.; Van Damme, Kay (2022-09-09). "Non-Indigenous Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): From a Few Notorious Cases to a Potential Global Faunal Mixing in Aquatic Ecosystems". Water. 14 (18): 2806. doi:10.3390/w14182806.