Use the links to navigate the hierarchy of invertebrate classification.

  Order Ploima

Family Trichocercidae

    Genus Trichocerca -- Wisconsin!
    Genus Ascomorphella -- North America.
    Genus Elosa -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Trichocercidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

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

Literature Records

• Trichocercidae, [North America] (Wallace & Snell, 2010).
• Trichocercidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Autralasian, Pacific, Antarctic; 70 species in 3 genera worldwide, 53 Nearctic species in 3 genera] (Segers, 2008).
• Trichocercidae, (Segers, 2007).
• Trichocercidae, (Edmondson, 1959).

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]
• Edmondson, W.T. 1959. Rotifera. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 420-494.

Web Pages

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