Identification and Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates
Ever wondered about those swimmers that found their way into your backyard pond uninvited? Or looked into your dipnet after chasing rainbows and wondered …what on earth is that?!? The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre has developed an online guide to the bugs, worms, mites, sponges, and all manner of other invertebrates from Australian streams, ponds, rivers, ephemeral wetlands and any other freshwater body you can think of. With keys, identification guides, plenty of photos, and lots of other resources it’s well worth checking out.
Mayfly larva, Ephemeroptera
The Online Bug Guide
The interactive guide to the Identification and Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates is designed to provide ecological and taxonomic information to enable community groups, students and scientists to readily identify inland aquatic invertebrates. The content focuses on invertebrates from fresh and inland saline surface waters of mainland Australia and Tasmania, in particular taxa utilised in routine biomonitoring. General information is given for each of the major aquatic invertebrate groups. Then successively more specific information is provided to genus level (not all groups). Taxonomic keys are provided to family level for the groups utilised in biomonitoring then to subfamily level or genus level for some families. Detailed information and key references are not included for the following major groups; Aphanoneura, Bryozoa, Gastrotrichia, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Protozoa, Rotifera and Tardigrada. The status of taxonomic levels above Order are reviewed or debated as knowledge is gained or refuted with the majority of groupings remaining constant. For this reason, major groups and minor groups above Order level have not been assigned taxonomic status in this Guide.
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