ROTIFERA OF PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SCARIDIUMEHRENBERG, 1830

Authors
SEGERS H DEMEESTER L
Citation
H. Segers et L. Demeester, ROTIFERA OF PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SCARIDIUMEHRENBERG, 1830, Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 131(1), 1994, pp. 111-125
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology",Limnology
Journal title
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039136
Volume
131
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
111 - 125
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9136(1994)131:1<111:ROPWTD>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A total of 127 rotifer species is identified from 18 zooplankton sampl es collected in the North of Papua New Guinea. The description of a hi therto unknown Scaridium is presented, the taxonomy of Lepadella bilob a HAUER (n. stat.) discussed. The majority of species found is cosmopo litan or cosmotropical, some (8 %) are restricted to the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World and Notogaea, one was previously known from Australia only. Rotifer zoogeography is discussed in the li ght of contemporary taxonomic and faunistic knowledge.