New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia

Zooplankton plays key roles in structuring interactions in aquatic communities but often remain undescribed in many water systems. This paper reports seventeen species of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Laguna de Navío Quebrado, all of them new records for La Guajira Department, Colombi...

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Main Author: Juan Manuel Fuentes-Reinés
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Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia 2014-06-01
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description Zooplankton plays key roles in structuring interactions in aquatic communities but often remain undescribed in many water systems. This paper reports seventeen species of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Laguna de Navío Quebrado, all of them new records for La Guajira Department, Colombia. The Cladocera assemblages include mostly the Neotropical taxa associated with vegetation. This paper also serves as the first compilation of the data on the Cladocera of this region and includes brief remarks, descriptions and illustrations of some species with additional notes on their distribution.
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spelling doaj.art-1ea1da3bfa694aa9bbb7c54593df673b2022-12-22T04:09:22ZengSociedade Brasileira de CarcinologiaNauplius2358-29362014-06-012212132New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, ColombiaJuan Manuel Fuentes-Reinés0Universidad del MagdalenaZooplankton plays key roles in structuring interactions in aquatic communities but often remain undescribed in many water systems. This paper reports seventeen species of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Laguna de Navío Quebrado, all of them new records for La Guajira Department, Colombia. The Cladocera assemblages include mostly the Neotropical taxa associated with vegetation. This paper also serves as the first compilation of the data on the Cladocera of this region and includes brief remarks, descriptions and illustrations of some species with additional notes on their distribution.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972014000100003&tlng=enCladoceraColombiadistributionNeotropicsspecies compositiontaxonomy
spellingShingle Juan Manuel Fuentes-Reinés
New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
Nauplius
Cladocera
Colombia
distribution
Neotropics
species composition
taxonomy
title New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
title_full New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
title_fullStr New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
title_full_unstemmed New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
title_short New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia
title_sort new records of cladocera crustacea anomopoda from laguna navio quebrado la guajira department colombia
topic Cladocera
Colombia
distribution
Neotropics
species composition
taxonomy
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972014000100003&tlng=en
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