Moinidae is a

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...

family within the order

Cladocera The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, are a superorder of small crustaceans that feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter (excluding some predatory forms). Over 1000 species have been recognised so far, with many more ...

. Species within this family are widely occurring, including North America and Africa. In newer classifications, it is sometimes included in the family

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. ...

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Moinidae: * ''

Moina ''Moina'' is a genus of crustaceans within the family Moinidae. The genus was first described by W. Baird in 1850. They are referred to as water fleas, but are related to the much larger '' Daphnia magna'' and the larger ''Daphnia pulex''. Th ...

'' Baird, 1850 * '' Moinodaphnia'' Herrick, 1887

References

Cladocera Crustacean families {{Branchiopoda-stub