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Cladocera is a primarily-freshwater monophyletic group, an important component of the microcrustacean zooplankton. They inhabit most types of continental fresh and saline water habitats, occurring more abundantly in both temporary and permanent stagnant waters. Cladocera is an ancient group of Palaeozoic origin. About 620 species are currently known, but we estimate that the real number of species is 2–4 times higher. A number of currently-recognised widespread species can be expected to harbour extensive cryptic diversity.
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The following funding sources partially supported our research: “Biodiversity” Program of Russian Academy of Sciences (grant 1.1.5) and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 06–04-48624 for AAK and NMK), Czech Ministry for Education (MSM0021620828 supporting AP) and the Hungarian National R&D Programme (contract No: 3B023-04 supporting LF). We would like to thank Nikolai N. Smirnov, Vladimír Kořínek, Dorothy Berner, and Joachim Mergeay for sharing of unpublished data and/or valuable comments on the manuscript and David Hardekopf for language corrections. We are also grateful to an anonymous referee for reading an earlier version of the paper and Sarah Adamowicz for her review.
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Forró, L., Korovchinsky, N.M., Kotov, A.A.et al. Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater.Hydrobiologia595, 177–184 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-9013-5
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