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{{Taxobox | color = pink
| name = ''Daphnia galeata''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| subphylum = [[Crustacean|Crustacea]]
| calssis = [[Branchiopoda]]
| ordo = [[Cladocera]]
| familia = [[Daphniidae]]
| genus = ''[[Daphnia]]''
| species = '''''D. galeata'''''
| binomial = ''Daphnia galeata''
| binomial_authority =
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision = ''D. g. galeata''<br />''D. g. mendotae''
}}
'''''Daphnia galeata''''' is a small species of [[zooplankton|planktonic]] [[crustacean]]. It lives in freshwater environments across a large area of the [[Northern Hemisphere]], mostly in [[lake]]s.
''D. galeata'' comprises two [[subspecies]], ''D. g. galeata'', found in the [[Old World]], and ''D. g. mendotae'', named after [[Lake Mendota]] near [[Madison, Wisconsin]], in the [[New World]]. ''D. g. mendotae'' may be a [[homoploid]] [[hybrid]]
taxon <ref>{{cite journal |quotes=no |journal=[[Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution]] |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=495–510 |year=1996 |title=Phylogenetics and evolution of the ''Daphnia longispina'' group (Crustacea) based on 12S rDNA sequence and allozyme variation |author=D. J. Taylor, P. D. N. Herbert & J. K. Colbourne}}</ref>.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Crustaceans]]
[[Category:Freshwater crustaceans]]
{{crustacean-stub}}
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