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  Genus Nitokra

Species N. spinipes

Taxon Information

The Species N. spinipes 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

• Nitocra spinipes, "USA (Alaska, Atlantic coast to Florida Keys), Canada (Hudson Bay), Mexico (Yucatán). Cosmopolitan. Fresh- and brackish water of estuaries and coastal marshes" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Nitocra spinipes, "Hudson Bay, Atlantic coast; Mexico; Alaska" (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.