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  Order Ploima

Family Gastropodidae

    Genus Gastropus -- midwestern North America.
    Genus Ascomorpha -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Gastropodidae 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

• Gastropodidae, [North America] (Wallace & Snell, 2010).
• Gastropodidae, [Palearctic, Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Nearctic, Neotropical; 12 species in 2 genera worldwide, 7 Nearctic species in 2 genera] (Segers, 2008).
• Gastropodidae, (Segers, 2007).

Bibliography

• Wallace, R.L. & T.W. Snell. 2010. Rotifera. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 173-235.
• Segers, H. 2008. Global diversity of rotifers (Rotifera) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 49-59. [Available online]
• Segers, H. 2007. Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa 1564. 104 pp. [Available online]

Web Pages

• An Illustrated Online Catalog of the Rotifera in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
• WikiSpecies
• World Register of Marine Species