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  Superphylum Ecdysozoa

Phylum Arthropoda

    Subphylum Chelicerata -- Wisconsin!
    Subphylum Crustacea -- Wisconsin!
    Subphylum Hexapoda -- midwestern North America.
    Subphylum Myriapoda

Taxon Information

The Phylum Arthropoda 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

• Arthropoda, "1,242,040 species" (Zhang, 2011).
• Arthropoda, [1,097,631 described species] (Brusca & Brusca, 2003).

Bibliography

• Zhi-Qiang, Z. 2013. Phylum Athropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 017–026. [Available online]
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 2011. Phylum Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 99–103. [Available online]
• Zhang, Z.-Q. 2011. Animal biodiversity: An introduction to higher-level classification and taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 7-12. [Available online]
• Brusca, R.C. & G.J. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. 936 pp.

Web Pages

• Animal Diversity Web
• Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Tree of Life
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species