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Title: An annotated checklist of freshwater copepoda (crustacea, hexanauplia) from continental Ecuador and the galapagos archipelago
Authors: Corgosinho, Paulo Henrique Costa
Ho?y?ska, Maria
Marrone, Federico
Oliveira Geraldes-Primeiro, Luís José de
Santos-Silva, Edinaldo Nelson
Perbiche-Neves, Gilmar
Orellana, Carlos
Issue Date: 2019
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: ZooKeys
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 2019, Número 871, Pags. 55-77
Abstract: An annotated checklist of the free-living freshwater Copepoda recorded in different regions in Ecuador (including the Amazon, the Andes, the coastal region, and the Galapagos Islands) is here provided. We revised all published records, critically evaluated the validity of each taxon and provided short taxonomic and biogeographical remarks for each one. A total of 27 taxa have been reported, including species and records at the generic level only. The species and taxa identified only up to the generic level belong to five families and 14 genera. The Cyclopoida is the most diverse group with 16 records belonging to species (or identified to the generic level only) and eight genera, followed by the Harpacticoida with six species, one identification to the generic level only, and four genera, and Calanoida with four species belonging to two genera. A total of 18 taxa are recorded for the Andes. Six have been recorded in the Amazon, two are recorded for the coastal region, and six for the Galapagos. One species is shared between the Amazon and the Andes. One species is shared between the coastal region and the Amazon. Seventeen are only reported from the Andes and four are only reported from the Amazon. At the current status of the knowledge, any attempt to analyze and generalize distributional patterns of copepods in Ecuador is premature due to the scarcity of available information, and evidently there is an urgent need for more extensive field collections. A few working hypothesis for future studies are identified. © P. H. C. Corgosinho et al.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.3897/zookeys.871.36880
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