Free-Swimming Colonial Rotifers (Monogononta:Flosculariacea:Flosculariidae) in Southwestern Louisiana Rice Fields
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Freshwater Invertebrate Biology
- Vol. 4 (4) , 187-193
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1467160
Abstract
During the summer of 1984, free-swimming colonial rotifers were collected incidental to field studies on mosquitoes in 335 rice fields in southwestern Louisiana. Six of the seven known species of free-swimming colonial flosculariid rotifers were found: Lacinularia elliptica Shepard, L. flosculosa (Mueller), L. ismailoviensis (Poggenpol), Sinantherina semibullata (Thorpe), S. socialis (Linnaeus) and S. spinosa (Thorpe). Lacinularia causeyae n. sp., a species new to science, was collected and is described herein. Of the 335 fields sampled, 225 fields had at least one species of these rotifers, which were locally abundant. Estimates of relative abundance are presented.Keywords
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