''Ceriodaphnia'' is a genus of the

Daphniidae Daphniidae is a family of water fleas in the order Anomopoda. Description Members of the family Daphniidae differ from other, similar diplostracans, such as the Macrotrichidae and Moinidae, in that the antennae of females are short and immobile ...

; the genus was described in 1853 by

James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcano, volcanic activity, and the ...

. It has

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...

. Species: * '' Ceriodaphnia dubia'' (Richard, 1894) * '' Ceriodaphnia quadrangula'' (O.F. Müller, 1785) * '' Ceriodaphnia reticulata'' (Jurine, 1820)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6549092 Cladocera Branchiopoda genera