Abstract
The genus Daphnia O.F. Müller, 1776 (Crustacea: Cladocera) still has a confused taxonomy for several objective and subjective reasons. Still there are many taxa with inadequately described morphology, primarily among the subgenus Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) Dybowski & Grochowski, 1895. We provide a redescription of an Australian endemic taxon Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) pusilla (Serventy, 1929) according to recent standards of morphological study with special attention to the thoracic limbs. We conclude that main differences between thoracic limbs of the subgenera D. (Ctenodaphnia) and Daphnia s. str. concern the limb I only as it is well-known among the cladocerans of other families. But still only a few species of D. (Ctenodaphnia) have been studied adequately, and efforts to redescribe their morphology need to be continued.
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