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Chironomus Meigen, 1803 
AphiaID: 146802

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Hexapoda (Subphylum) > Insecta (Class) > Pterygota (Subclass) > Diptera (Order) > Nematocera (Suborder) > Culicomorpha (Infraorder) > Chironomidae (Family) > Chironominae (Subfamily) > Chironomini (Tribe)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Chironomini
Sources  basis of record: Cheng, L. (Ed.) (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Macfarlane, R.P.; Andrew, I. (2009). Diptera, miscellaneous orders (Hexapoda). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, 70: 338pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Chironomus aprilinus Meigen, 1830
Species Chironomus enteromorphae Tokunaga, 1936
Species Chironomus halophilus Kieffer
Species Chironomus muratensis Ryser, Scholl & Wuelker, 1983
Species Chironomus salinarius Kieffer, 1915
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146802
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-02-01 08:41:13Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-04-05 07:38:13Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-04-18 07:42:39Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Chironomus Meigen, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146802 on 2013-06-19
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