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  Genus Leptodiaptomus

Species L. minutus

Taxon Information

The Species L. minutus has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from midwestern states of North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Leptodiaptomus minutus, "USA (Wyoming to eastern states, south to Ohio and North Carolina), Canada (Alberta and Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland and Labrador), Greenland, Iceland. Lakes, ponds" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Diaptomus minutus, [North Central United States] (Underhill et al., 1982).
• Diaptomus (Leptodiaptomus) minutus, "Lakes. Eastern Canada and U.S., south to N.C., west to Wyo.; Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories; Greenland; Iceland" (Wilson & Yeatman, 1959).

Bibliography

• Reid, J.W. & C.E. Williamson. 2010. Copepoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 829-899.
• Underhill, J.C., W.D. Schmid & D.E. Gilbertson. 1982. Taxonomic Keys to the Common Animals of the North Central States, exclusive of the parasitic worms, terrestrial insects, and birds, 4th edition. 205 pp.
• Wilson, M.S. & H.C. Yeatman. 1959. Free-Living Copepoda. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 735-861.

Web Pages

• An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of North America
• Free-Living and Parasitic Copepods (including Branchiruans) of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Keys and Details on Individual Species