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Pleuroxus aduncus (Jurine, 1820)
Water Flea
Family: Chydoridae

Introduction to the Cladocerans of BC

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Distribution of Pleuroxus aduncus in British Columbia in British Columbia

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Introduction

View a key to the families of Cladocerans of British Columbia, prepared by the Resource Inventory Committee.

Status Information

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Unlisted	Unlisted	Unlisted	Unlisted

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Species References

Carl, G.C. 1940. The Distribution of Some Cladocera and Free-Living Copepoda in British Columbia. Ecological Monographs 10(1): 55-110.

Chengalath, R. 1980. Survey of the littoral Cladocera of Canada. Report to the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada: 205 pp.

Reed, E.B. 1963. Records of freshwater crustacea from arctic and subarctic Canada. Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada 199: 29-62.

Smirnov, N.N. 1974. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Crustacea. Vol. 1, No. 2. Chydoridae. Israel Program for Scientific Translation. Jerusalem: 644 pp.

Smirnov, N.N. 1996. Cladocera: the Chydorinae and Sayciinae (Chydoridae) of the World. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam: 197 pp.

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