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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

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Hendrik Segers, L. Meneses, and M. Del Castillo; Rotifera (Monogononta) from Lake Kothia, a high-altitude lake in the Bolivian Andes. Arch.Hydrobiol. 132(2):227-236, 1994

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The rotifer fauna of Kothia Lake, a high-altitude lake near La Paz, Bolivia, and of an adjacent weedy pond is studied. Lecane boliviana n. sp. is described and Lepadella degreefi De Smet redescribed. Ten species are recorded from the neotropical region for the first time. Overall, the fauna consists mainly of cosmopolitan, cold-stenothermal species together with one apparently endemic, one that was previously considered a Galapagos endemic, one antarctic and several arctic taxa.