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  Superorder Syncarida

Order Bathynellacea

    Family Bathynellidae -- North America.
    Family Parabathynellidae -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Order Bathynellacea 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

• Bathynellacea, [North America] (Covich et al., 2010).
• Bathynellacea, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian; 219 species in 66 genera worldwide, 12 Nearctic species in 6 genera] (Camacho & Valdecasas, 2008).
• Bathynellacea, [North America] (Smith, 2001).

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.
• Camacho, A.I. & A.G. Valdecasas. 2008. Global diversity of syncarids (Syncarida; Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 257-266. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Minor Malacostraca. Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 545-551.

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