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  Genus Microcyclops

Species M. varicans

Taxon Information

The Species M. varicans 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

• Microcyclops varicans, "Widespread in USA and Canada, Mexico (Aguascalientes). Supposedly cosmopolitan, although this requires revision. Among macrophytes in lakes, ponds, and sloughs" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Cyclops (Microcyclops) varicans rubellus, "Widely distributed in [North America], but easily overlooked because of small size" (Wilson & Yeatman, 1959).

Bibliography

• Reid, J.W. & C.E. Williamson. 2010. Copepoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 829-899.
• Wilson, M.S. & H.C. Yeatman. 1959. Free-Living Copepoda. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 735-861.

Web Pages

• An Image-Based Key To The Zooplankton Of North America