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  Superfamily Hygrobatoidea

Family Aturidae

    Subfamily Albiinae -- North America.
    Subfamily Aturinae -- North America.
    Subfamily Axonopsinae -- North America.
    Subfamily Notoaturinae
    Subfamily Zelandopsinae

Taxon Information

The Family Aturidae 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

• Aturidae, [North America] (Smith et al., 2010).
• Aturidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian; 62 genera worldwide] (Di Sabatino et al., 2008).

Bibliography

• Smith, I.M., D.R. Cook & B.P. Smith. 2010. Water mites (Hydrachnidiae) and other arachnids. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 485-586.
• Di Sabatino, A., H. Smit, R. Gerecke, T. Goldschmidt, N. Matsumoto & B. Cicolani. 2008. Global diversity of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia; Arachnida) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 303-315. [Available online]

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