Rotifera from Burundi : the Lecanidae (Rotifera: Monogononta)
As part of a survey of the rotifer fauna of Burundi, Lecanidae from Kashiru and the floodplain of the river Rusizi in Northwest Burundi are reported. Thirty-four species of Lecane were found. Twenty-five of them are new to Burundi, raising the total Burundian Lecane record to thirty-five. Three spec...
| Published in: | Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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| Online Access: | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/167650 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-167650 https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/2000022 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/167650/file/01HCVT4YHC7MB2TYEBX4XEJVRM |
| Summary: | As part of a survey of the rotifer fauna of Burundi, Lecanidae from Kashiru and the floodplain of the river Rusizi in Northwest Burundi are reported. Thirty-four species of Lecane were found. Twenty-five of them are new to Burundi, raising the total Burundian Lecane record to thirty-five. Three species, Lecane aeganea Harring, 1914, L. eswari Dhanapathi, 1976 and L. subulata (Harring & Myers, 1926) are new to the African fauna, the presence of L. baimaii Sanoamuang & Savatenalinton, 1999 in Africa is confirmed. The fauna consists mainly of cosmopolitan and tropicopolitan tars, accompanied by several Eastern Hemisphere taxa, and one each of pantropical, endemic and arctic-temperate taxa. The latter, occurring in a high-altitude locality, may be a glacial relict. |
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