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Issue: Vol. 2939 No. 1: 5 Jul. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2939.1.2
Page range: 50–58
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 1

Cephalodella acidophila n. sp. (Monogononta: Notommatidae), a new rotifer species from highly acidic mining lakes

Department of Organismal Biology, University of Salzburg, Austria
Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany
Institute for Limnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 5310 Mondsee, Austria
Rotifera taxonomy acidophily new species

Abstract

We describe a new species of Cephalodella, C. acidophila n. sp., from the plankton of two extremely acidic mining lakes (pH Cephalodella delicata Wulfert. It shares with the latter an almost identical trophi morphology and anatomical organization, but differs clearly by form and length of its toes, larger body size, and ecology. Laboratory experiments revealed that the species is acidophilic, i.e. it thrives at low pH (Chlamydomonas acidophila. The easily cultured species has previously been used in various experimental studies, but has only now been recognized as an undescribed species.

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