{{Short description|Family of small freshwater animals}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Podon leuckartii (YPM IZ 073622).jpeg | image_caption = ''Podon leuckartii'' | taxon = Podonidae | authority = Mordukhai-Boltovskoi, 1968 }}
'''Podonidae''' is a family of onychopods in the order [[Diplostraca]]. There are about 8 genera and at least 20 described species in Podonidae.<ref name=bugref>{{Cite web| title=Podonidae Family Information| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1140526| website=BugGuide.net| accessdate=2018-02-23}}</ref><ref name=itis>{{Cite web| title=Podonidae Report| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=621207| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System| accessdate=2018-02-23}}</ref><ref name=eol>{{Cite web| title=Podonidae Overview| url=http://eol.org/pages/6922/overview| website=Encyclopedia of Life| accessdate=2018-02-23}}</ref><ref name=catlife>{{Cite web| title=Browse Podonidae| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/c8454bb3283c33301c5504bc96197f50| website=Catalogue of Life| accessdate=2018-02-23}}</ref> A lot of them are [[non-native species]]{{where|date=October 2024}}, many of which pose a great threat to aquatic ecosystems.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kotov |first1=Alexey A. |last2=Karabanov |first2=Dmitry P. |last3=Van Damme |first3=Kay |date=2022-09-09 |title=Non-Indigenous Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): From a Few Notorious Cases to a Potential Global Faunal Mixing in Aquatic Ecosystems |journal=[[Water (journal)|Water]]|volume=14 |issue=18 |pages=2806 |doi=10.3390/w14182806 |issn=2073-4441 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Genera== * ''[[Caspievadne]]'' * ''[[Cornigerius]]'' * ''[[Evadne (crustacean)|Evadne]]'' <small>Lovén, 1836</small> * ''[[Pleopis]]'' * ''[[Pleopsis]]'' <small>Dana, 1853</small> * ''[[Podon]]'' <small>Lilljeborg, 1853</small> * ''[[Podonevadne]]'' * ''[[Pseudevadne]]'' <small>Claus, 1877</small>
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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Dodson | first1 = Stanley L. | last2 = Cáceres | first2 = Carla E. | last3 = Rogers | first3 = D.Christopher | date = 2010 | title = Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates | edition = Third | publisher = Academic Press | isbn = 978-0-12-374855-3 | doi = 10.1016/C2009-0-02669-5 }} * {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Capinera | editor-first1 = John L. | date = 2008 | title = Encyclopedia of Entomology | publisher = Springer | isbn = 978-1402062421 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Brendonck | first1 = L. | last2 = Rogers | first2 = D.C. | last3 = Olesen | first3 = J. | last4 = Weeks | first4 = S. | last5 = Hoeh | first5 = W.R. | title = Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment | chapter = Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater | series = Developments in Hydrobiology | editor-last1 = Balian | editor-first1 = E.V. | editor-last2 = Lévêque | editor-first2 = C. | editor-last3 = Segers | editor-first3 = H. | editor-last4 = Martens | editor-first4 = K. | date = 2007 | journal = Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. Developments in Hydrobiology | publisher = Springer | volume = 198 | pages = 167–176 | isbn = 978-1-4020-8258-0 | doi = 10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_18 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Dumont | first1 = Henri | last2 = Negrea | first2 = S. | date = 1992 | title = Introduction to the Class Branchiopoda. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World | publisher = Backhuys | isbn = 9057821125 }} {{refend}} {{clear}}
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[[Category:Cladocera]] [[Category:Crustacean families]]
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