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  clade Neoophora

Order Proseriata

    Suborder Lithophora -- North America.
    Suborder Unguiphora

Taxon Information

The Order Proseriata 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

• Proseriata, [North America] (Kolasa & Tyler, 2010).
• Proseriata, [Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Antarctic; 11 freshwater species in 9 genera worldwide; 1 Nearctic species] (Schockaert et al., 2008).
• Proseriata, (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Kolasa, J. & S. Tyler. 2010. Flatworms: Turbellarians and Nemerteans. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 143-161.
• Schockaert, E.R., M. Hooge, R. Sluys, S. Schilling, S. Tyler & T. Artois. 2008. Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, “Turbellaria”) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 41-48. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Platyhelminthes (free-living flatworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 77-108.

Web Pages

• Animal Diversity Web
• Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species