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  Superfamily Bogidielloidea

Family Salentinellidae

    Genus Parasalentinella
    Genus Salentinella

Taxon Information

The Family Salentinellidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Salentinellidae, "Freshwater or slightly brackish, hypogean... Balkans to Southern France, Spain and Morocco" (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Salentinellidae, [Nearctic; 16 species in 2 genera worldwide] (Väinölä et al., 2008).

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]
• 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]

Web Pages

• World Register of Marine Species