Pseudopenilia Explained

Pseudopenilia bathyalis is a species of diplostracan, described in 2004, that lives at depths of 1900m-2140mm (6,200feet-7,020feetm) 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]

Notes and References

1. Н. Г. Сергеева (N. G. Sergeeva) . 2004 . Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda), an inhabitant of the hydrogen-sulphide zone of the Black Sea . Pseudopenilia bathyalis gen. n., sp. n. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Ctenopoda) – обитатель сероводородной зоны Черного моря . Ukrainian . Vestnik Zoologii . 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 . . 1795 . 57–66 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1795.1.4 . PDF excerpt.