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  Order Sabellida

Family Serpulidae

    Genus Ficopomatus -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Serpulidae 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

• Serpulidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian; 5 species in 2 genera worldwide, 2 Nearctic species in 1 genera] (Glasby & Timm, 2008).
• Serpulidae, in brackish freshwater along western and southeastern coasts; 2 species [North America] (Smith, 2001).
• Serpulidae, (Foster, 1972).
• Serpulidae, (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.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
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• World Register of Marine Species