Furcatergalia
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| Furcatergalia | |
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| Baetisca berneri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Ephemeroptera |
| Suborder: | Furcatergalia |
Furcatergalia is a suborder of mayflies in the order Ephemeroptera. There are about 14 families and at least 1,700 described species in Furcatergalia.[1][2][3]
These 14 families belong to the suborder Furcatergalia:
- Baetiscidae
- Behningiidae (sand-burrowing mayflies)
- Caenidae (small squaregilled mayflies)
- Ephemerellidae (spiny crawler mayflies)
- Ephemeridae (common burrower mayflies)
- Euthyplociidae
- Leptohyphidae (little stout crawler mayflies)
- Leptophlebiidae (pronggilled mayflies)
- Neoephemeridae (large squaregill mayflies)
- Palingeniidae (riverbed burrower mayflies)
- Polymitarcyidae (pale burrower mayflies)
- Potamanthidae (hacklegilled burrower mayflies)
- Prosopistomatidae
- Tricorythidae
