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Phylum Placozoa

    Family Trichoplacidae

Taxon Information

The Phylum Placozoa is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

  • Placozoa, (Pechenik, 2015).
  • Placozoa, "1 species" (Zhang, 2011).
  • Placozoa, [1 described species] (Brusca & Brusca, 2003).

Bibliography

  • Pechenik, J.A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, NewYork.. 606 pp.
  • 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.

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