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Macrothrix
Sign in to saveMacrothrix is a genus of water fleas in the family Macrothricidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassBranchiopoda
- OrderDiplostraca
- FamilyMacrothricidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 102
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Macrothricidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ECOSUR, CMN, AM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Ecuador, United States, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Macrothricidae
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- taxon name
- Macrothrix
- taxon rank
- genus
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Macrothrix is a genus of water fleas in the family Macrothricidae.
The genus was described in 1843 by William Baird, and has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macrothrix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.