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  Genus Parastenocaris

Species P. brevipes (+ P. wilsoni, + P. starretti)

Taxon Information

The Species P. brevipes 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

• Parastenocaris brevipes, "USA (Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Virginia, Wisconsin), Northern Europe, Japan. Acid bogs, interstitial in streambeds and sandy lakeshores" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Parastenocaris brevipes, "from sandy beaches of Wisconsin Lakes; a new record is from bog mats in Michigan ... from Massachusetts" (Wilson & Yeatman, 1959).
• Parastenocaris wilsoni, [= P. brevipes] (Wilson & Yeatman, 1959).
• Parastenocaris starretti, "from Sandy beach of Wisconsin lake" (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

• World of Copepods