Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Diptera

Nematocera

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Axymyiomorpha
Bibionomorpha
Blephariceromorpha
Culicomorpha
Psychodomorpha
Ptychopteromorpha
Tipulomorpha

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: muggen
 Japanese: カ亜目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Swedish: myggor

Literature

basis of record

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Nematocera. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150922

Pape, Dr Thomas Beuk, Dr Paul. Nematocera. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fab9f69b-f68d-4fce-a790-52579b7e624f

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150922
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:11630

Last modified

2016-03-11 by Pape, Dr Thomas Beuk, Dr Paul & by Jonas Mortelmans

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