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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Ref ID : 1709

L. Sanoamuang and V.M. Stout; New records of rotifers from the South Island lakes, New Zealand. Hydrobiologia 255/256:481-490, 1993

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Thirty-five lakes in the South Island of New Zealand were surveyed for rotifers during 1988-1991. Of 85 taxa identified, 31 are first records for New Zealand, bringing the rotifers recorded from the country to 331. Four species (Keratella australis, K. slacki, Lecane herzigi and L. tasmaniensis), previously recorded as endemic forms only in Australia, are now added to the New Zealand checklist. Several of the new records are photographed, and scanning electron micrographs of the trophi are shown. Comments are made on the Australasian endemics and rotifer biogeography in New Zealand.