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  Parvorder Limnotyphloplanida

Suborder Temnocephalida

    Superfamily Scutarielloidea
    Superfamily Temnocephaloidea

Taxon Information

The Suborder Temnocephalida has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Temnocephalida, [Palaearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian 98 freshwater species in 15 genera worldwide] (Schockaert et al., 2008).

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]

Web Pages

• Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
• WikiSpecies
• World Register of Marine Species