{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Nebalia bipes.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Nebalia bipes]]'' | taxon = Nebalia | authority = [[William Elford Leach|Leach]], 1814 | type_species = ''[[Nebalia herbstii]]'' | type_species_authority = Leach, 1814 }}
'''''Nebalia''''' is a large [[genus]] of small [[crustacean]]s containing more than half of the [[species]] in the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Leptostraca]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crustacea.nhm.org/peet/leptostraca/classification.html |title=Classification |publisher=[[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]] |date=2004 |author=Todd Haney |access-date=August 8, 2007 |archive-date=October 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014171839/http://crustacea.nhm.org/peet/leptostraca/classification.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was first described by [[William Elford Leach]] in 1814.<ref name="leach">{{cite book|author=Leach, W. E. |date=1814|title= Zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new, or interesting animals|volume=1| pages=1–137 [99]| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28684682}}</ref> The genus contains over thirty species:<ref>{{cite web |author=Jan Mees |year=2011 |title=''Nebalia'' Leach, 1814 |publisher=[[World Register of Marine Species]] |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147031 |access-date=November 4, 2011}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=24em}} *''[[Nebalia abyssicola]]'' <small>Ledoyer, 1997</small> *''[[Nebalia antarctica]]'' <small>Dahl, 1990</small> *''[[Nebalia biarticulata]]'' <small>Ledoyer, 1997</small> *''[[Nebalia bipes]]'' <small>(Fabricius, 1780)</small> *''[[Nebalia borealis]]'' <small>Dahl, 1985</small> *''[[Nebalia brucei]]'' <small>Olesen, 1999</small> *''[[Nebalia cannoni]]'' <small>Dahl, 1990</small> *''Nebalia capensis'' <small>Barnard, 1914</small> *''[[Nebalia clausi]]'' <small>Dahl, 1985</small> *''[[Nebalia dahli]]'' <small>Kazmi & Tirmizi, 1989</small> *''[[Nebalia daytoni]]'' <small>Vetter, 1996</small> *''[[Nebalia falklandensis]]'' <small>Dahl, 1990</small> *''[[Nebalia geoffroyi]]'' <small>Milne-Edwards, 1928</small> *''[[Nebalia gerkenae]]'' <small>Haney & Martin, 2000</small> *''[[Nebalia herbstii]]'' <small>Leach, 1814</small> *''[[Nebalia hessleri]]'' <small>Martin, Vetter & Cash-Clark, 1996</small> *''[[Nebalia ilheoensis]]'' <small>Kensley, 1976</small> *''[[Nebalia kensleyi]]'' <small>Haney & Martin, 2005</small> *''[[Nebalia kocatasi]]'' <small>Moreira, Kocak & Katagan, 2007</small> *''[[Nebalia lagartensis]]'' <small>Escobar-Briones & Villalobos-Hiriart, 1995</small> *''[[Nebalia longicornis]]'' <small>Thomson, 1879</small> *''[[Nebalia marerubri]]'' <small>Wägele, 1983</small> *''[[Nebalia melanophthalma]]'' <small>Ledoyer, 2002</small> *''[[Nebalia mortoni]]'' <small>Lee & Bamber, 2011</small><ref>{{cite journal |author=Christine N. W. Lee & Roger N. Bamber |year=2011 |title=A new species of ''Nebalia'' (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=3091 |pages=51–59 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3091.1.4 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z03091p059f.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] excerpt}}</ref> *''[[Nebalia neocaledoniensis]]'' <small>Ledoyer, 2002</small> *''[[Nebalia patagonica]]'' <small>Dahl, 1990</small> *''[[Nebalia reboredae]]'' <small>Moreira & Urgorri, 2009</small> *''[[Nebalia schizophthalma]]'' <small>Haney, Hessler & Martin, 2001</small> *''[[Nebalia strausi]]'' <small>[[Antoine Risso|Risso]], 1826</small> *''[[Nebalia troncosoi]]'' <small>Moreira, Cacabelos & Dominguez, 2003</small> *''[[Nebalia villalobosi]]'' <small>Ortiz, Winfield & Chazaro-Olvera, 2011</small> {{div col end}}
==Parasites== * ''Nebalia'' species are the hosts of the unique rotifers of family [[Seisonidae]].<ref name="ricci1993">{{cite journal |last1=Ricci |first1=Claudia |last2=Melone |first2=Giulio |last3=Sotgia |first3=Cristina |title=Old and new data on Seisonidea (Rotifera) |journal=Hydrobiologia |date=1993 |volume=255-256 |pages=495–511 |doi=10.1007/BF00025879}}</ref>
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[[Category:Leptostraca]] [[Category:Taxa named by William Elford Leach]] [[Category:Malacostraca genera]] [[Category:Crustaceans described in 1814]]
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