“…In a marine environment the Cladocera Penilia avirostris Dana, 1849 is one of the most abundant zooplankton species in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Rose et al, 2004), while the species Evadne spinifera P.E. Müller, 1867, Pseudevadne tergestina Claus, 1877, Pleopis polyphemoides (Leuckart, 1859) and Pleopis schmackeri (Poppe, 1889) are also common in tropical regions (Ramirez, 1981;Monteiro-Ribas et al, 2013). In addition to food availability, temperature and salinity are some of the main factors that may affect the spatiotemporal distribution of zooplankton (Wooldridge and Deyzel, 2009;Monteiro-Ribas et al, 2006).…”