Tags: Crustacean.

Daphnia galeata is a small species of planktonic crustacean. It lives in freshwater environments across a large area of the Northern Hemisphere mostly in lakes.D. galeata comprises two subspecies: D. g. galeata found in the Old World and D. g. mendotae named after Lake Mendota near Madison Wisconsin in the New World. D. g. mendotae may be a homoploid hybrid taxon. In the lower Great Lakes the populations are mostly hybrids of the European and American subspecies.

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