Greater Daphnia [1] ( lat. Daphnia magna ) is a species of crustacean family of daphnids living in North America, Eurasia and Africa. The body is oval, transparent. Females up to 6 mm long, males up to about 2 mm long. A thermophilic animal that lives in reservoirs rich in nutrients. The filter, feeds on phyto- and bacterioplankton, can scrape fouling from the bottom. Recent studies have found that Daphnia magna can reduce the spore concentration of the chitridiomycete fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis [2] .
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| Daphnia magna Straus , 1820 |
Notes
- ↑ Brem A.E. Animal Life / Ed. Professor Nikolsky A. M. - M .: OLMA-PRESS, JSC "Red Proletariat", 2004. - S. 1027. - 1192 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85197-214-9 .
- ↑ Buck, Julia; Truong, Lisa; Blaustein, Andrew (2011). "Predation by zooplankton on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: biological control of the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus?" . One of the model objects of evolutionary genetics and aquatic toxicology. Biodiversity and Conservation 20 (14): 3549–3553.
Literature
- Heinz Streble, Dieter Krauter: Das Leben im Wassertropfen. Mikroflora und Mikrofauna des Süßwasser. Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-11966-2