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  Suborder Nereidiformia

Family Nereididae

    Subfamily Gymnonereidinae -- North America.
    Subfamily Namanereidinae -- North America.
    Subfamily Nereidinae -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Nereididae 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

• Nereididae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific, Antarctic; 55 species in 17 genera worldwide, 10 Nearctic species in 8 genera] (Glasby & Timm, 2008).
• Nereidae [sic], [North America] (Smith, 2001).
• Nereidae [sic], (Foster, 1972).
• Nereidae [sic], (Hartman, 1959).

Bibliography

• Glasby, C.J. & T. Timm. 2008. Global diversity of polychaetes (Polychaeta; Annelida) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 107-115. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Annelida (Polychaetes, Aeolosomatidae, aquatic oligochaetes, Branchiobdellida, leeches). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 269-325.
• Foster, N. 1972. Freshwater polychaetes (Annelida) of North America. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Biota of Freshwater Ecosystems Identification Manual 4. 15 pp. [Available online]
• Hartman, O. 1959. Polychaeta. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 538-541.

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