Life in Freshwater

Scroll down the page to find the kingdoms and species or if you know the kingdom click the link This uses the 5 kingdoms classification system:

Kingdom	Protista
Kingdom	Animal
Kingdom	Plant
Kingdom	Fungi
Kingdom	Monera

 

Protista Kingdom

Euglena	Amoeba
Algae	diatom
Stoneworts

Animal Kingdom

Phylum Cnidaria

Hydra

Phylum Platyhelminthese - Flatworms

Class Turbellaria - free-living flatworms	Flatworms
Class Trematoda - parasitic flukes	Flukes

Phylum Annelida - the true worms, with chaetae or bristles on segmentmented body

Class Oligichaeta	Worms
Class Hirudinea	Leeches

 

Phylum Horsehair Worm

 

Phylum Arthropoda - those with jointed bodies and limbs, external skeleton

Class Crustacea - crustaceans with two pairs of antennae

Asellus Hog Louse	Daphnia Water Flea
Freshwater Shrimp	Crayfish
Fish Louse

 

Class Insecta - the insects with 3 pairs of legs, one pair of antennae

Dragonflies	Damselflies
Mayflies	Stoneflies
Alder Fly	Caddis - caseless and cased
Lesser Waterboatman	Pond skater
Greater Waterboatman	Water measurer
Water Scorpion
China-mark Moth	Horse Flies
Midge_Black Fly	Mosquitoes
Midge_Chironomus
Midge_Phantom
Diving Beetle	Elmid Beetle
Screech Beetle

Class Arachnida - spiders and mites with four pairs of legs

Water spider	Raft Spider
Mites

Phylum Mollusca

Class Gastropoda

Spire snail	Pond Snails
River limpet
Theodoxus_Snail

Class Bivalva

Mussels	Orb Shells

Phylum Chordata

Lamprey

Class Pisces - Fish

Pike	Trout
Stone Loach	Millers Thumb
Stickleback

Class Amphibia - the amphibians

Newts	Frog
Toads

Class Aves - Birds

Dipper	Heron
Various Ducks	Moorhen
Coot	Mute Swan
Great Crested Grebe
Kingfisher

Plant Kingdom

Phylum Bryophyta - the mosses and liverworts

 

Liverwort

Mosses including Sphagnum

Phylum Pteridophyta - the ferns, horsetails, club-mosses

Water Fern

Horsetail

Phylum Spermatophyta - the flowering plants

Grasses, Rushes & Sedges

Sedges	Rushes
Reedmace	Bur-reed
Sweet-Grass

Flowers

Lilies Water	Bladderwort
Marestail	Shore Weed
Mint	Lobelia
Water Crowfoot	Common Pond Weed
Marsh Marigolds	Canadian Pond Weed (Elodea)
Comfrey
Water Soldier

Trees

Alder	Willow

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