NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Genus

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: No review; untreated NODC data
Global Species Completeness: unknown
Latest Record Review: unknown

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Subfamily - Orthocladiinae
  Family - Chironomidae
  Infraorder - Culicomorpha
  Suborder - Nematocera
  Order - Diptera
  Superorder - Holometabola
  Infraclass - Neoptera
  Subclass - Pterygota
  Class - Insecta
  Subphylum - Hexapoda
  Phylum - Arthropoda
  Superphylum - Ecdysozoa
  Infrakingdom - Protostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Species - Metriocnemus aequalis
      Species - Metriocnemus atratulus
      Species - Metriocnemus edwardsi
      Species - Metriocnemus fuscipes
      Species - Metriocnemus hygropetricus
      Species - Metriocnemus knabi
      Species - Metriocnemus obscuripes
      Species - Metriocnemus perfuscus
      Species - Metriocnemus picipes
      Species - Metriocnemus polaris
      Species - Metriocnemus similis
      Species - Metriocnemus tristellus
      Species - Metriocnemus ursinus
      Species - Metriocnemus herbicolus
      Species - Metriocnemus marcidis