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  Superfamily Eusiroidea

Family Eusiridae (+ Pontogeniidae)

    Family Paramoera -- North America.
    Family Abdia
    Family Accedomoera
    Family Antarctogeneia
    Family Atyloella
    Family Atylopsis
    Family Bovallia
    Family Cleonardo
    Family Cleonardopsis
    Family Dautzenbergia
    Family Eusirella
    Family Eusirogenes
    Family Eusiroides
    Family Eusirus
    Family Harcledo
    Family Nasageneia
    Family Pareusirogenes
    Family Pontogeneia
    Family Rhachotropis
    Family Rozinante
    Family Schraderia
    Family Tethygeneia

Taxon Information

The Family Eusiridae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

  • Pontogeniidae, [North America] (Covich et al., 2010).
  • Eusiridae, [Palearctic, Australasian; 9 species in 2 genera worldwide] (Väinölä et al., 2008).

Bibliography

  • 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]

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