New Records of Cladocera (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Laguna Navío Quebrado, La Guajira Department, Colombia

Abstract

-Zooplankton plays key roles in structuring interactions in aquatic communities but often remain undescribed in many water systems. This paper reports seventeen species of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Laguna de Navío Quebrado, all of them new records for La Guajira Department, Colombia. The Cladocera assemblages include mostly the Neotropical taxa associated with vegetation. This paper also serves as the first compilation of the data on the Cladocera of this region and includes brief remarks, descriptions and illustrations of some species with additional notes on their distribution.

Life cycle traits, secondary production and DNA barcode of Oxyurella ciliata Bergamin, 1939 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anomopoda, Chydoridae)

“…The species O. ciliata Bergamin, 1939 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anomopoda, Chydoridae), has a wide geographical distribution occurring on the American (Elias-Gutiérrez et al, 2006) and African continents (Egborge et al, 1994;Imoobe, 2011). So far, it has been found in North America, in Mexico (Elías-Gutiérrez et al, 2006), in Central America, in Guatemala (Van De Velde et al, 1978, Haiti (Collado et al, 1984) and the Dominican Republic (Acosta-Mercado et al, 2012) and in South America, in Venezuela (Rey & Vázquez, 1986;Zoppi De Roa & Vasquez, 1991;Zoppi De Roa & López, 2008), Colombia (Fuentes-Reinés & Roa, 2013;Fuentes-Reinés, 2014) and Brazil (Rocha et al, 2011;Santos-Wisniewski et al, 2011;Sousa & Elmoor-Loureiro, 2012).…”

Contribution to the knowledge of cladocerans fauna (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) from La Española lagoon, Colombia

“…Remarkably, no prior investigations have been conducted concerning the cladoceran fauna within this ecosystem. Taxonomic investigations pertaining to Colombian cladoceran fauna within shallow freshwater habitats have been actively pursued over the past few decades (Fuentes-Reinés et al 2012, Fuentes-Reinés & Elmoor-Loureiro 2015, Fuentes-Reinés 2014, Fuentes-Reinés et al 2019, Andrade-Sossa et al 2020, Garibian et al 2021a, Fuentes-Reinés et al 2023, Fuentes-Reinés et al 2024.…”

Pleuroxus pamirensis (Werestschagin, 1923) (Crustacea: Cladocera), first record for the fauna of Russian Federation

“…This is a group of microscopic organisms undergoing rapid progress in taxonomy and faunistic studies. New groups of taxonomists have appeared in some developed countries [Elías-Gutiérrez et al, 2006Fuentes-Reines, 2014;Sousa, Elmoor-Loureiro, 2018;Sousa et al, 2021], and a paradoxical situation has emerged: cladoceran fauna of Mexico, Brazil and Thailand are studied more intensively now compared to those of the USA or Canada.…”