New Record Rotifer Species for the Turkish Fauna

Authors

MURAT KAYA
AHMET ALTINDAĞ

DOI

10.3906/zoo-0706-10

Abstract

Forty-seven rotifer species were recorded from 11 freshwater bodies in Turkey. In all, 11 of these species, Cephalodella eva (Gosse, 1887), C. gibboides Wulfert, 1950, C. intuta Myers, 1924, C. maior (Zavadovsky, 1926), C. tenuiseta (Burn, 1890), Collotheca tenuilobata (Anderson, 1889), Monommata dentata Wulfert, 1940, Mytilina bisulcata (Lucks, 1912), Notommata tripus Ehrenberg, 1838, Paradicranophorus sordidus Donner, 1968, and Proales fallaciosa Wulfert, 1937 are new records for the Turkish fauna. Some of the recorded species were illustrated using light microscopy.

Keywords

Rotifera, new records, taxonomy, Paradicranophorus, Turkey

First Page

7

Last Page

12

Recommended Citation

KAYA, MURAT and ALTINDAĞ, AHMET (2009) "New Record Rotifer Species for the Turkish Fauna," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 33: No. 1, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-0706-10
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol33/iss1/2