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  Superfamily Corophioidea

Family Corophiidae

    Subfamily Corophiinae -- midwestern North America.
    Subfamily Protomedeiinae

Taxon Information

The Family Corophiidae 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

• Corophiidae, (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Corophiidae, [North America] (Covich et al., 2010).
• Corophiidae, [Palearctic, Australasian, Pacific; 13 species in 4 genera worldwide] (Väinölä et al., 2008).
• Corophiidae, 1 species; inhabits tubes in tidal freshwater, CA, OR, WA (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Lowry, J.K. & A.A. Myers. 2012. A phylogeny and classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). ZooTaxa 3610: 1-80. [Available online]
• Covich, A.P., J.H. Thorp & D.C. Rogers. 2010. Introduction to the Subphylum Crustacea. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 695-723.
• Väinölä, R., J.D.S. Witt, M. Grabowski, J.H. Bradbury, K. Jazdzewski & B. Sket. 2008. Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 241-255. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Amphipoda (Scuds, sideswimmers). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 569-584.

Web Pages

• WikiSpecies
• World Amphipoda Database
• World Register of Marine Species