Rotatorien aus Gewässern Ecuadors

Abstract

The highest diversity was in the Amazonian lowland with 161 species; in waters of the pacific coastal area we found 81 species and in the Andes only 63. The poorest Rotifer fauna was in Lake Mojanda in the high mountain region at 3,700 m above sea-leve with only 9 species. Some rernarks were made on 12 particular species: Collotheca tenuilobata, Floscularia melicerta, Hexarthra interrnedia brasiliensis, H. mira, Manfredium eudactyloturn, Monommata grandis, Octotrocha speciosa, Ptygura elsteri, Henoceros falcatus, Macrotrachela rnultispinosa and Mniobia russeola.