invasive species and its potential ecological implications
The freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii (Lankester, 1880) is a cosmopolite species that is dis-tributed in all continents with the exception of Antarctica (Jankowski, 2001; Silva and Roche, 2007; Zhang et al., 2009). Its habitats are streams, pools and lagoons (Jankowski et al., 2008). This...
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| Summary: | The freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii (Lankester, 1880) is a cosmopolite species that is dis-tributed in all continents with the exception of Antarctica (Jankowski, 2001; Silva and Roche, 2007; Zhang et al., 2009). Its habitats are streams, pools and lagoons (Jankowski et al., 2008). This species is an active zoo-plankton predator, and its prey consists mainly of small microcrustaceans and rotiters (Jankowski, 2004). This species is distributed across South American tropical and subtropical latitudes (Jankowski, 2001; Silva and Roche, 2007). It was reported for the first time for Chilean in-land waters lagoons in the Valparaiso region (Silva and Roche, 2007), and other zones in central Chile, but there are not geographic details about its occurrence (Dumont, 1994). On an ecological note, this zone has numerous |
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