The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) as a relict group
By N. Korovchinsky. 2006
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According to the fossil record and DNA data, the Cladocera is an ancient crustacean group. Recent revisions make their taxonomy amenable to zoogeographical analysis. A bipolar (antitropical) disjunct distribution of faunal complexes and taxa (Daphnia, Daphniopsis, Pleuroxus, Tretocephala, etc.), the wide ranges of some species and narrow restriction of others, the presence of isolated populations and the concentration of endemics in the warm temperate – subtropical zone of both hemispheres are traits of cladoceran zoogeography. These enable us to compare them with better studied (both living and fossil) plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, and to analyse their faunal formation by the modern version of the concept of ‘ejected relicts’ instead of vicariance. This reveals the extant Cladocera as a relict group, whose taxa were widely distributed in the past. Tertiary climatic changes, primarily within the present tropical and boreal latitudes, resulted in mass extinction of their biotas, while the warm temperate – subtropical regions remained comparatively unchanged. Although most recent Cladocera have relict status, others such as the D. pulex and D. longispina species groups and the subgenus Eubosmina are evolutionary young and show recent speciation. © 2006 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, 147, 109–124.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography
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- Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater (2007, background): “This hypothesis consider the extant Cladocera as a relict group (Korovchinsky, 2006), whose taxa were widely distributed in the past.”