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Some Rotifera from Ile Amsterdam (Terres Australes etAntarctiques Françaises), with description of Brachionusamsterdamensis sp. nov. (Monogononta : Brachionidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2009

W. H. De Smet*
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, R.U.C.A.-campus, Department of Biology, Section Polar Ecology, Limnology and Paleobiology, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium. E-mail: wides@ruca.ua.ac.be
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Abstract

A preliminary study of the rotifer fauna of Ile Amsterdam (T.A.A.F.), southern Indian Ocean, yielded seven taxa. Brachionus amsterdamensis sp. nov. is described. Information on the morphology of the trophi of Brachionus dimidiatus is presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Université Paul Sabatier, 2001

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