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There is very little on their internal anatomy, heart, circulatory system, eye musculature, nervous system, feeding appendages etc.
There is nothing on sexual reproduction, relative sizes and morphology of males and females, mating behaviour (quite aggressive!) etc.
There is nothing on ecology which is particularly surprising as much of the early work by the
Freshwater Biological Association in the
Lake District of the UK used differing cladoceran species as indicator organisms for differing trophic levels of the various lakes in which they were found.
Nothing on their role as detritivors or their significance as food for very many small fish,
hydra and other small freshwater carnivores.
I think a good place to start would be to talk about their ecology and expand on their origin. As mentioned above there is a lack of information on their physical description. Would anyone be able to help expand on their circulatory and nervous systems?
Mieleveronica (
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00:44, 3 February 2019 (UTC)reply
There is a great deal of information in 19th century texts when the optical microscope was predominant and drawing from the microscope was an essential skill for any reputable zoologist. Very few of these texts have been digitised and it may require a visit to the dustier basements of old academic libraries, but much of the anatomical work is a good today as when it was written. Have fun! VelellaVelella Talk 00:45, 4 February 2019 (UTC)reply
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Arthropods, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
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There is very little on their internal anatomy, heart, circulatory system, eye musculature, nervous system, feeding appendages etc.
There is nothing on sexual reproduction, relative sizes and morphology of males and females, mating behaviour (quite aggressive!) etc.
There is nothing on ecology which is particularly surprising as much of the early work by the
Freshwater Biological Association in the
Lake District of the UK used differing cladoceran species as indicator organisms for differing trophic levels of the various lakes in which they were found.
Nothing on their role as detritivors or their significance as food for very many small fish,
hydra and other small freshwater carnivores.
I think a good place to start would be to talk about their ecology and expand on their origin. As mentioned above there is a lack of information on their physical description. Would anyone be able to help expand on their circulatory and nervous systems?
Mieleveronica (
talk)
00:44, 3 February 2019 (UTC)reply
There is a great deal of information in 19th century texts when the optical microscope was predominant and drawing from the microscope was an essential skill for any reputable zoologist. Very few of these texts have been digitised and it may require a visit to the dustier basements of old academic libraries, but much of the anatomical work is a good today as when it was written. Have fun! VelellaVelella Talk 00:45, 4 February 2019 (UTC)reply