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  Order Parachela

Family Hypsibiidae

    Genus Hypsibiinae -- midwestern North America.
    Genus Astatumen -- North America.
    Subfamily Diphasconinae -- North America.
    Genus Itaquascon -- North America.
    Genus Mesocrista -- North America.
    Genus Platicrista -- North America.
    Genus Bindius
    Genus Parascon

Taxon Information

The Family Hypsibiidae 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

• Hypsibiidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific, Antarctic; 368 species in 20 genera worldwide, 82 Nearctic species in 11 genera] (Garey et al., 2008).
• Hypsibiidae, (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Garey, J.R., S.J. McInnes & P.B. Nichols. 2008. Global diversity of tardigrades (Tardigrada) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 101-106. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Tardigrada (Water bears). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 227-243.

Web Pages

• Animal Diversity Web
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Synopsis of the Described Tardigrada of the World
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species