Moinidae

{{Short description|Family of small freshwater animals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Moinidae

| authority = Goulden, 1968

| image = Moina brachiata 148747186.jpg

| display_parents = 3

}}

Moinidae is a crustacean family within the order Cladocera.{{cite book |author=Clyde E. Goulden |year=1968 |title=The Systematics and Evolution of the Moinidae |publisher=American Philosophical Society |pages=1–101 |isbn=978-0-87169-586-4}} Species within this family are widely occurring, including North America and Africa.{{cite web |author=C. Michael Hogan |year=2008 |title=Makgadikgadi |work=The Megalithic Portal |editor=A. Burnham |url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22373&mode=&order=0 |access-date=February 9, 2011}} In newer classifications, it is sometimes included in the family Daphniidae.{{cite book |url=http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author1=Joel W. Martin |author2=George E. Davis |name-list-style=amp |year=2001 |pages=1–132 |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County}} Some Moinidae have accidentally been introduced by humans to areas outside of their native range.{{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 |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/18/2806 |journal=Water|volume=14 |issue=18 |pages=2806 |doi=10.3390/w14182806 |issn=2073-4441 |doi-access=free}} Genetics study{{Cite journal |last1=Bekker |first1=E.I. |last2=Karabanov |first2=D.P. |last3=Galimov |first3=Y.R. |last4=Kotov |first4=A.A. |date=2016-08-24 |title=DNA Barcoding Reveals High Cryptic Diversity in the North Eurasian Moina Species (Crustacea: Cladocera) |url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161737 |journal=PLOS ONE|volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=e0161737 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0161737 |issn=1932-6203 |doi-access=free |pmc=4996527}} strongly supports division of Moina into two faunistic groups: European-Western Siberian and Eastern Siberian-Far Eastern, with a transitional zone at the Yenisey River basin (Eastern Siberia).