| Anisops | |
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| Anisops debilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Notonectidae |
| Genus: | Anisops Spinola, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Notovecta nivea Fabricius, 1775
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Anisops is a genus of insects in the family Notonectidae.[1][2] They're sometimes referred to as backswimmers, so called because they swim upside down.
- ^ "Common Backswimmers (Genus Anisops)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ Spinola, Maximilian (1837). Essai sur les genres d'insectes appartenants a l'ordre des hemiptères, Lin., ou rhyngotes, Fab., et à la section des heteroptères, Dufour / para Maximilien Spinola. Gênes: Y. Gravier.