Freshwater

Average temperatures in a freshwater biome in the summer range from 65 to 75 degrees F, and from 35 to 45 degrees F in the winter.

On average, precipitation in freshwater biome ranges from 10 to 80 inches per year.

Paramecium ( PARR-ə-MEE-s(ee-)əm, -⁠see-əm, plural "paramecia" only when used as a vernacular name) is a genus of eukaryotic, unicellular ciliates, widespread in freshwater, brackish, and ocean environments.

Macrobrachium rosenbergii is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn.

The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Dreissenidae.

Charales is an order of freshwater green algae in the division Charophyta, class Charophyceae, commonly known as stoneworts.

Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Asellus aquaticus is a freshwater isopod crustacean, resembling and related to woodlice.

The freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Margaritiferidae.

The quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Dreissenidae.

The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) is a species of large, freshwater turtles in the family Chelydridae.

Cherax quadricarinatués (known by several common names, including Australian red claw crayfish, Queensland red claw, red claw yabby, redclaw, tropical blue crayfish, freshwater blueclaw crayfish) is an Australian freshwater crayfish.

Pacu (Portuguese pronunciation: [paˈku]) is a common name used to refer to several species of omnivorous South American freshwater serrasalmid fish related to piranhas.

Euglena gracilis is a freshwater species of euglenid, a microscopic type of algae, in the genus Euglena.

The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of the order Cypriniformes.

Microcystis aeruginosa is a species of freshwater cyanobacteria that can form harmful algal blooms of economic and ecological importance.

Cyanophora paradoxa is a freshwater species of Glaucophyte that is used as a model organism.

The Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) is a large Australian predatory freshwater fish of the genus Maccullochella in the family Percichthyidae.

The chain pickerel (Esox niger), also known as Jackfish, Mud Pike, or Southern Pike is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes.

Triops longicaudatus (commonly called American tadpole shrimp or longtail tadpole shrimp) is a freshwater crustacean of the order Notostraca, resembling a miniature horseshoe crab.

Lemna minor, the common duckweed or lesser duckweed, is a species of aquatic freshwater plant in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the arum family Araceae.

Salmo trutta fario, sometimes called the river trout, is a river-dwelling freshwater predatory fish from the genus Salmo of the family Salmonidae.

Ancistrus cirrhosus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the subfamily Hypostominae of the family Loricariidae, the armored catfishes.

The American pickerel (Esox americanus) is a medium-sized species of North American freshwater predatory fish belonging to the pike family.

Astyanax jordani is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.

The true Kuhli loach (Pangio kuhlii), which can be used synonymously with "coolie" loach, occasionally referred to as eel loach, is a small eel-like freshwater fish belonging to the loach family (Cobitidae).

Nothobranchius rachovii, the bluefin notho, is a species of freshwater annual killifish from Mozambique.

Apistogramma panduro (A-183), also commonly referred to as Apistogramma pandurini, is a small species of cichlid freshwater fish from the Amazon river basin in Peru.

Dinoflagellates are mostly marine plankton, but they are also common in freshwater habitats.

Mayflies are distributed all over the world in clean freshwater habitats, though absent from Antarctica.

The nymphs are aquatic, with different species living in a variety of freshwater habitats including acidic bogs, ponds, lakes and rivers.

The natural habitat of the African bullfrog is moist to dry savanna, subtropical to tropical dry shrubland, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, canals, and flooded ditches.

The species prefers freshwater rivers and streams, which are usually seasonally flooded, and may also take to freshwater lakes and springs.

In Brazil, researchers found roseate spoonbill diets to consist of fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and seeds, all foraged from limnetic/freshwater habitats.

The North American channel catfish is an ostariophysan, or a bony fish living in freshwater habitats.

The coot breeds across much of the Old World on freshwater lakes and ponds, and like its relative the common moorhen, has adapted well to living in urban environments, often being found in parks and gardens with access to water.

This bird breeds in small colonies in heavily vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, much of Asia down to New Guinea, and most of Africa.

In their non-breeding habitat they feed on intertidal mudflats and along the muddy margins of freshwater lakes.

include freshwater habitats with stagnant or slow-moving waters (ponds, river, aquaculture, swamps, rice fields).

Ponds and paddy fields all over Japan

Stagnant and slow moving waters

Ponds, lakes and ditches, usually in relatively deep water

Freshwater; benthopelagic

Freshwater; benthopelagic; pH range: 6.5 - 7.5; dH range: ? - 20; non-migratory

Freshwater; benthopelagic; pH range: 6.5 - 7.0; dH range: 5 - 12

Freshwater; benthopelagic

Freshwater; benthopelagic

Fontinalis occurs primarily in clean, acidic freshwater across Afro-Eurasia, Iceland, and the Americas, attached to submerged rocks and logs.

Vampyrellids can be found in a wide variety of habitats, soil, freshwater or marine, but members of Vampyrella tend to be found in freshwater environments.

This species inhabits marginal swamps and freshwater lagoons (Ref. 3066 )

Eurycea rathbuni is only found in subterranean water systems in Edwards Plateau in Texas.

About 351 freshwater species are known and a conservative estimate suggests that there may be about 2000 freshwater species worldwide.

They are often abundant in quiet inland waters where they may bloom in numbers sufficient to color the surface of ponds and ditches green (E. viridis) or red (E. sanguinea).

Most are found in fresh and brackish water, but three marine species are known.