Daphnia in a Sentence
  • Of the seven genera, the cosmopolitan Daphnia contains about 100 species and varieties, of which Thomas Scott (1899) observes that " scarcely any of the several characters that have at one time or another been selected as affording a means for discriminating between the different forms can be relied on as satisfactory."
  • Daphnia are found in large numbers sheltering under floating aquatics such as water-lilies.
  • These can be easily raised in newly hatched brine shrimp, powdered flake, and small daphnia and other pond foods.