Daphnia lumholtzi Sars, 1885 (Cladocera: Daphniidae) invades Argentina

Abstract

The extent of freshwater biological invasions is difficult to predict.

Species richness of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra and Goa (India), with biogeographical comments

“…Daphnia found in the study also have a varying distribution with species number changing latitudinally across regions, and follows a trend which has been analyzed in a recent study by Popova and Kotov (2013). D. (C.) lumholtzi is distributed in Africa, Asia and Australia but recently spread to North America (Benzie, 2005;Sorensen and Sterner, 1992) and South America (Kotov and Taylor, 2014). D. (C.) similoides extends from the Indian subcontinent to Central China (Hudec, 1991;Benzie, 2005) but recently it has been shown that China houses a distinct sub-species, D. (C.) similoides sinensis (Gu et al, 2013).…”

Establishment of Chydorus sphaericus (O.F. Muller, 1785) (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Australia: consequences of mass fish stocking from Northern Europe?

“…Perhaps the most successive invader is D. lumholtzi Sars, 1885, which was introduced together with African blue tilapia or/and nile perch to southern USA (Sorensen and Sterner, 1992), and which has now colonized all of the USA (Benson et al, 2013), Mexico (Elias-Gutierrez et al, 2008), Brazil (Zanata et al, 2003) and Argentina (Kotov and Taylor, 2014).…”

First genetic characterization of non‐native Daphnia lumholtzi Sars, 1885 in Brazil confirms North American origin

“…The genetic similarity found between populations from the American continents suggests that Brazilian specimens are genetically similar to native populations from Africa and/or Asia. Kotov and Taylor () suggested that the populations they found in Argentina may be an expansion of Brazilian populations from the Upper Paraná River. Although these authors did not publish any of their studied sequences, our genetic sequence showed the same haplotype found in specimens from Arkansas, United States, which had a sequence similar to that of Argentinian populations.…”

“…The species was first recorded in Brazilian waters in 2000 (Zanata, Espíndola, Rocha, & Pereira, ) and was recorded in Mexico in 2008 (Elías‐Gutiérrez, Jerónimo, Ivanova, Valdez‐Moreno, & Hebert, ). In 2003, this species was found in the Upper Paraná River floodplain (Simões et al, ) and 3 years later was recorded in the Lower Paraná River, in the Argentinian stretch (Kotov & Taylor, ) (Figure ).…”

“…Global map, adapted from Kotov and Taylor (), with native (gray squares) and invasive (gray circle) distribution of D. lumholtzi . 1 – Australia (Benzie, ); 2 – Africa (Smirnov, ); 3 – Eurasia (Behning, ; Glagolev, ); 4 – North America (Benson et al, ); 5 – first record in South America (Zanata et al, ); 6 – Mexico (Elías‐Gutiérrez et al, ); 7 – second record in Brazil (Simões et al, ) and this study; 8 – Argentina (Kotov & Taylor, )…”