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  Genus Elaphoidella

Species E. bidens

Taxon Information

The Species E. bidens has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from midwestern states of North America.

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

Literature Records

• Elaphoidella bidens, "USA (Minnesota to Louisiana and east from New York to Florida), Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí); considered cosmopolitan, but is probably introduced in the Americas. Eutrophic lakes and pools" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).
• Elaphoidella bidens coronata, "Cosmopolitan... N.C., Pa., Va., La." (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.