Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment

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Stygobiotic crustacean species richness: a question of numbers, a matter of scale (2010, background): “…a question of numbers Currently, as far as fresh water is concerned, invertebrates are represented by approximately 111,000 species worldwide (Balian et al., 2008); among them, insects are the dominant group in surface fresh water, with about 76,000 species followed by crustaceans, with…”
A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) (2011, background): “…the Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences and the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (Brussels) conducted the “Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment”, an initiative that involved c. 150 taxonomic experts, covering all freshwater animal groups (Balian et al. 2008; http://FADA.biodiversity.be).”
The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Southern Africa (2009, background): “Current estimates suggest the overall magnitude of described freshwater animal species is 126,000, half of which are represented by the very speciose class of Insecta (Balian et al. 2008).”
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation (2008, background): “Detailed information exists for other freshwater taxa in regions like North America and Europe, but the consideration of such groups in a global analysis would be difficult, given the wide variation in available data (Balian et al. 2008).”