Cladocera and Copepoda Crustaceans of the Upper Uzh River (Ukrainian Carpathians)

A New Finding of the Non-Native Copepod Sinodiaptomus sarsi (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) in Ukraine

“…The well-documented European waterways suitable as invasion corridors for aquatic taxa (Grigorovich et al, 2002;Alexandrov et al, 2007;Galil et al, 2008) have been supplemented in recent decades by the Asian colonization of Europe by non-indigenous zooplankton species, due to the strengthening of economic exchange between the countries of these regions (Turbelin et al, 2017). At least four cyclopoid (Temnykh & Nishida, 2012;Anufrieva et al, 2014;Anufrieva & Shadrin, 2016), four calanoid copepod species (Alfonso et al, 2014;Sabia et al, 2014;Mykitchak & Koval, 2018) native to Asian region, one to Australia (Ferrari & Rossetti, 2006) and one to North America (Branford et al, 2017) have been reported in recent years as new to Europe. Such risks of invasion raise up with the increasing of human international economic activity, especially for small animals such as copepods which can be easily transported along with plants, feather of birds or in the intestines of fish (Havel & Shurin, 2004, Bartholme et al, 2005.…”

“…Recently, S. sarsi was recorded in north-eastern Romania (Battes et al, 2020) and in the Middle Volga Region (Podshivalina & Sheveleva, 2020). In Ukraine, few specimens of S. sarsi were found in 2016 in the lake of Novostuzhytske forestry and trout farm old pond both located in the watershed of the upper Uzh River in the Carpathian Mountains (Mykitchak, 2016(Mykitchak, , 2018Mykitchak & Koval, 2018).…”