GEORISSIDAE Laporte, 1840
(a family of scavenger water beetles)

GEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

GEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles)
SuperfamilyHYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)
Series Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Duff, A.G. 2012 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Sphaeriusidae to Silphidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, 496pp

GEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to GEORISSIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles):

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