Moina heilongjiangensis sp. nov. (Crustacea, Cladocera) from the northeast of China

By

Bi, Ran
Wei, Jie
Deng, Zhixiong
Blair, David.
Hu, Wei
Yin, Mingbo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-8-1

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

101

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

1325--1337

Subjects

Cladocera , Moina heilongjiangensis sp. nov. , Moinidae , Morphology , new species , phylogenetics , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.150242

 

Abstract

A new species of Moina Baird, 1850 (Cladocera, Moinidae), is described from a brackish lake in the northeast of China based on morphology and molecular phylogenetics. The morphological description of Moina heilongjiangensissp. nov. includes details of the thoracic limb structure, and we compare the new species with other members of the genus Moina based on key morphological characteristics. Moina heilongjiangensissp. nov. is one of the few members of the genus with two eggs in the ephippium and lacking superficial hairs on the body. We also applied two genetic markers (COI and ITS-1) to assess its position in the genus Moina. Our molecular phylogenetic tree indicates that M. heilongjiangensissp. nov. is close to Moina affinis Birge, 1893, based on mitochondrial sequences.