Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment [Paperback]

This book offers a comprehensive study of species- and genus-level diversity and chorology of the global freshwater fauna to date. It gives a state of the art assessment of the diversity and distribution of Metazoa in the continental waters of the world.

An introduction to the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) project.- Global diversity of aquatic macrophytes in freshwater.- Global diversity of sponges (Porifera: Spongillina) in freshwater.- Global diversity of inland water cnidarians.- Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria) in freshwater.- Global diversity of rotifers (Rotifera) in freshwater.- Global diversity of nemerteans (Nemertea) in freshwater.- Global diversity of nematodes (Nematoda) in freshwater.- Global diversity of hairworms (Nematomorpha: Gordiaceae) in freshwater.- Global diversity of gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha) in fresh waters.- Global diversity of bryozoans (Bryozoa or Ectoprocta) in freshwater.- Global diversity of tardigrades (Tardigrada) in freshwater.- Global diversity of polychaetes (Polychaeta; Annelida) in freshwater.- Global diversity of oligochaetous clitellates (Oligochaeta; Clitellata) in freshwater.- Global diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) in freshwater.- Global diversity of freshwater mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in freshwater.- Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater.- Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater.- Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater.- Global diversity of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in freshwater.- Global diversity of copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) in freshwater.- Global diversity of fishlice (Crustacea: Branchiura: Argulidae) in freshwater.- Global diversity of mysids (Crustacea-Mysida) in freshwater.- Global diversity of spelaeogriphaceans & thermosbaenaceans (Crustacea; Spelaeogriphacea & Thermosbaenacea) in freshwater.- Global diversity of clC1