Acanthametropus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Ephemeroptera
Subordo: Pisciformia
Superfamilia: Siphlonuroidea

Familia: Acanthametropodidae
Genus: Acanthametropus
Species: A. nikolskyi – A. pecatonica
Name

Acanthametropus Tshernova, 1948

Type species: Metreturus pecatonica Burks, 1953

References

Acanthametropus is a genus of mayflies in the family Acanthametropodidae. There are at least two described species in Acanthametropus.[1][2][3]
Species

These two species belong to the genus Acanthametropus:

Acanthametropus nikolskyi Tshernova, 1948
Acanthametropus pecatonica (Burks, 1953)

References

"Acanthametropus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
"Acanthametropus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-02-20.

"Mayfly Central". Retrieved 2019-02-20.

Further reading

Barber-James, Helen M.; Gattolliat, Jean-Luc; Sartori, Michel; Hubbard, Michael D. (2008). "Global diversity of mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) in freshwater". 595. Springer: 339–350. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37.
Barber-James, H.; Sartori, M.; Gattolliat, J-L.; Webb, J. (2013). "World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species". Retrieved 2019-02-20.
Campbell, Ian C., ed. (1990). Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7579-4.