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Hydrophilidae Latreille 1802
Description
Hydrophilidae
The aquatic members of the Hydrophilidae (the present account does not treat terrestrial species in the subfamily Sphaeridiinae) occur in a wide variety of aquatic environments, most of them in standing water and lentic habitats. Most species are scavengers, feeding on various kinds of decaying plant material, or else they feed on living plants such as algae (Smetana 1988).
Notes
Published as part of Majka, Christopher, 2008, The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition, pp. 239-260 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 250, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576401 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6E2EFF89F10F9945B37EFFCFFF86B96E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hydrophilidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Latreille
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hydrophilidae Latreille, 1802 sec. Majka, 2008
References
- Smetana A (1988) Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142: 1 - 316.