Pseudopenilia

Pseudopenilia bathyalis is a species of cladoceran, described in 2004, that lives at depths of 1,900–2,140 m (6,230–7,020 ft) in the anoxic zone of the Black Sea.[1] Originally described in the family Sididae, it was transferred to its own family, the Pseudopenilidae, in 2008.[2]

Pseudopenilia bathyalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Branchiopoda
Order:
Cladocera
Suborder:
Ctenopoda
Family:
Pseudopenilidae

Korovchinsky & Sergeeva, 2008
Genus:
Pseudopenilia

Sergeeva, 2004
Species:
P. bathyalis
Binomial name
Pseudopenilia bathyalis
Sergeeva, 2004

References
  1. Н. Г. Сергеева (N. G. Sergeeva) (2004). "Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda) – обитатель сероводородной зоны Черного моря" [Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda), an inhabitant of the hydrogen-sulphide zone of the Black Sea] (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii (in Ukrainian). 38 (3): 37–42.
  2. Nikolai M. Korovchinsky & Nelli G. Sergeeva (2008). "A new family of the order Ctenopoda (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the depths of the Black Sea" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 1795: 57–66.


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