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Proyecto Alto Purús: Taxa to be investigated

Numbers in parentheses are species known in the Amazon Basin.

CRUSTACEA

NOTOSTRACA (Loffler 1981b)

CHONCOSTRACA (Loffler 1981b)

CLADOCERA (Green 1981)

COPEPODA (Loffler 1981a) - Calanoida (16) Cyclopoida (42) Harpacticoida (31) (Rocha and Por 1998).

BRANCHIURA (Lemos de Castro 1981a).

OSTRACODA (McKenzie 1981). ISOPODA (Lemos de Castro 1981b) (20+ fish parasites (Trilles 197), 6 non-parasitic, Cymothoidae (> 4);

AMPHIPODA (Holsinger 1981); (Rodríguez 1981; Magalhaes 1988; Rodriguez and Pereira 1992; Pereira 1993; Rodriguez and Campos 1998; Rodríguez and Sternberg 1998; Sternberg et al. 1999; Lovejoy and de Araujo 2000; Alvarez et al. 2002b; Mantelatto et al. 2006; Robles et al. 2007).

DECAPODA - Sergestidae (2), Atydae (2), Palaemonidae (8); Trichodactylidae (12), Pseudothelphusidae (> 8).
Macrobrachium sp.

MOLLUSCA (Rioja 1971; Alvarenga and Ricci 1981; Paraense 1981)

PALEOHETERODONTA. Aetheriidae (2). Mycetopodidae (41) (Dreher-Mansur and Valer 1992; Dreher-Mansur 1999) Hyriidae (c.32) (Haas 1959; Bonetto 1967)

HETERODONTA. Corbiculidae (1), Corbulidae (Parodiz and Hennings 1965; Veitenheimer-Mendes 1981; Ituarte 1994, 1996, 1997a, b, c, 1998b, 1999, 2000): Sphaeriidae (> 5) (Klappenbach 1967; Ituarte 1998a);

PROSOBRANCHIA. Ampullariidae (> 20) (Pilsbry 1924, 1933; Pain 1960). Cochliopidae, Lithoglyphidae, Thiaridae; PULMONATA - Chilinidae (Troschel 1852; Morretes 1949; Haas 1959; Marten et al. 1994), Ancylidae (> 30) (Hubendick 1967). Planorbidae (6) (Paraense 1967, 1975): Physidae (1), Succinidae, (3), Lymnaeidae (3) (Paraense 1982, 1995).
PLATYHELMINTHA (Damborenea and Cannon 2001; Faubel 2001; Brusa et al. 2003; Noreña 2003,
          2004; Damborenea et al. 2005; Domingues and Boeger 2005; Norena et al. 2005a; Norena et al. 2005
          b, c; Noreña et al. 2005; Norena et al. 2006; Damborenea et al. in press-a; Damborenea et al. in press-
          b; Noreña et al. in press-a). (TURBELLARIA) TEMNOCEPHALIDA (7); ALLOCOELA (5);
          TRICLADIDA (12).
Family Geoplanidae, terrestrial flatworms
PORIFERA (Volkmer-Ribeiro and Rutzler 1997; Batista et al. 2003; Albert 2005; Tavares et al. 2005;
          Volkmer-Ribeiro et al. 2005; Volkmer-Ribeiro and Parolin 2005; Volkmer-Ribeiro et al. 2006):
          Spongillidae (24), Potamolepidae (5).
Heteromeyenia Sponge

VERTEBRATA (Ortega and Vari 1986; Malabarba et al. 1998; Crampton 2001; Reis et al. 2003).

CHONDRICHTHYES. Carcharinidae (1), Pristidae (1), Potamotrygonidae (15).

SARCOPTERYGII.  Lepidosirenidae (1).

ACTINOPTERYGII. Osteoglossidae (3), Clupeidae (6), Engraulidae (10), Pristigasteridae (1), Parodontidae (2), Prochilodontidae (5), Curimatidae (40), Anostomidae (50), Chilodontidae (3), Crenuchidae (40), Hemiodontidae (20), Characidae (600), Serrasalmidae (30), Gasteropelecidae (6), Acestrorhynchidae (5), Cynodontidae (4), Erythrinidae (4), Ctenoluciidae (4), Lebiasinidae (20), Cetopsidae (7), Trichomycteridae (40), Callichthyidae (75), Scoloplacidae (3), Loricariidae (300), Doradidae (70), Auchenipteridae (50), Pimelodidae (250), Aspredinidae (15), Gymnotidae (15), Hypopomidae (20), Rhamphichthyidae (11), Sternopygidae (19), Apteronotidae (33), Cichlidae (200), Nandidae (2), Sciaenidae (10), Eleotridae (3), Belonidae (4), Rivulidae (10), Poeciliidae (8), Synbranchidae (5), Batrachoididae (2), Tetraodontidae (2).
Potamoraphis sp., Needlefish
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