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  clade Adiaphanida

Order Tricladida

    Suborder Continenticola -- Wisconsin!
    Suborder Cavernicola
    Suborder Maricola

Taxon Information

The Order Tricladida 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

• Tricladida, [Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific & Oceanic Islands, Antarctic; 426 freshwater species in 51 genera worldwide; 36 Nearctic species in 12 genera] (Schockaert et al., 2008).
• Trcladida, [Wisconsin] (Watermolen, 2005).
• Tricladida, (Smith, 2001).
• Tricladida, (Hyman & Jones, 1959).

Bibliography

• 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]
• Watermolen, D.J. 2005. Aquatic and terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria) and ribbon worm (Nemertea) records from Wisconsin. Research/Management Findings, Wisconsin DNR (55). 8 pp.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Platyhelminthes (free-living flatworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 77-108.
• Hyman, L.H. & E.R. Jones. 1959. Turbellaria. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 323-365.

Web Pages

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