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Gyrinus affinis Aube 1838

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada

Description

Gyrinus affinis Aubé, 1838

Kings Co.: Upton, 6.VI.1953, F.M. Cannon, (1, ACPE). Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 20.VI.1936, lily pond, UPEI; Vernon River, MacMillan’s Pond, 3.VI.1970, R. Wenn, (1, UPEI).

Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island, this species is found in both lentic (58.8%) and lotic (41.2%) environments (Oygur and Wolfe 1991).

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 pages 246-247, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ACPE , R, UPEI
Event date
1936-06-20 , 1970-06-03
Verbatim event date
1936-06-20/1953-06-06 , 1970-06-03
Scientific name authorship
Aube
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Gyrinidae
Genus
Gyrinus
Species
affinis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gyrinus affinis Aube, 1838 sec. Majka, 2008

References

  • Oygur S, Wolfe GW (1991) Classification, distribution, and phylogeny of North American (north of Mexico) species of Gyrinus Muller Coleoptera: Gyrinidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 207: 1 - 97.