Frestiwater Animal Diversity Assessment
Abstract Global diversity of inland water cnidari-ans is low, containing <40 species belonging to phylogenetically distinct groups representing inde-pendent invasion events: the common and cosmopolitan hydras (12-15 species); the sporadi-cally occurring freshwater medusae (6-16 sp.); the Cordylop...
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Summary: | Abstract Global diversity of inland water cnidari-ans is low, containing <40 species belonging to phylogenetically distinct groups representing inde-pendent invasion events: the common and cosmopolitan hydras (12-15 species); the sporadi-cally occurring freshwater medusae (6-16 sp.); the Cordylophorinae (2 sp.); the parasitic Polypodium (1 sp.); the medusae occurring in saline lakes (4 sp.). Freshwater cnidarians inhabit nearly all types of freshwater on all continents (except Antarctica), but only a few species have cosmopolitan distributions. Due to uncertainty in species knowledge, ñne scale regions of endemicity are not yet clear. |
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