Macrothrix Baird, 1843

Elías-Gutiérrez, Manuel, Jerónimo, Fernando Martínez, Ivanova, Natalia V., Valdez-Moreno, Martha & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2008, DNA barcodes for Cladocera and Copepoda from Mexico and Guatemala, highlights and new discoveries, Zootaxa 1839 (1), pp. 1-42 : 11

Genus Macrothrix Baird, 1843

Barcoding results demonstrated that M. elegans Sars , a species recently re-instated by Kotov et al. (2004), is widely distributed from Guatemala to the north of Mexico, but the species dwells far south to Argentina (see Kotov et al. 2004). It seems to be common in many ponds and lakes from the tropical regions.