Pseudopenilia

Pseudopenilia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Branchiopoda
Order:	Ctenopoda
Family:	Pseudopenilidae Korovchinsky & Sergeeva, 2008
Genus:	Pseudopenilia Sergeeva, 2004
Species:	P. bathyalis
Binomial name
Pseudopenilia bathyalis Sergeeva, 2004

Pseudopenilia bathyalis is a species of diplostracan, described in 2004, that lives at depths of 1,900–2,140 m (6,230–7,020 ft) in the anoxic zone of the Black Sea.^[1] Originally described in the family Sididae, it was transferred to its own family, the Pseudopenilidae, in 2008.^[2]

1. ^ Н. Г. Сергеева (N. G. Sergeeva) (2004). "Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda) – обитатель сероводородной зоны Черного моря" [Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda), an inhabitant of the hydrogen-sulphide zone of the Black Sea] (PDF). Vestnik Zoologii (in Ukrainian). 38 (3): 37–42.
2. ^ Nikolai M. Korovchinsky & Nelli G. Sergeeva (2008). "A new family of the order Ctenopoda (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the depths of the Black Sea" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 1795: 57–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1795.1.4.

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