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Rotifera from Burundi : the Lecanidae (Rotifera : Monogononta)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2009

D. Baribwegure  and
H. Segers
D. Baribwegure
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Zoogeography and Nature Conservation, Department Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat, 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université du Burundi, B.P. 2700 Bujumbura, Burundi
H. Segers
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Zoogeography and Nature Conservation, Department Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat, 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
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Abstract

As part of a survey of the rotifer fauna of Burundi, Lecanidae from Kashira and the floodplain of the river Rusizi in Northwest Burundi are reported. Thirty-four species of Lecane were found. Twenty-five of them are new to Burundi, raising the total Burundian Lecane record to thirty-five. Three species, Lecane aeganea Harring, 1914, L. eswari Dhanapathi, 1976 and L. subulata (Harring & Myers, 1926) are new to the African fauna, the presence of L. baimaii Sanoamuang & Savatenalinton, 1999 in Africa is confirmed. The fauna consists mainly of cosmopolitan and tropicopolitan taxa, accompanied by several Eastern Hemisphere taxa, and one each of pantropical, endemic and arctic-temperate taxa. The latter, occurring in a high-altitude locality, may be a glacial relict.

Keywords

rotiferalecanidaezoogeographybiodiversitydistributionBurundirotifèreslecanidaezoogéographiebiodiversitédistributionBurundi
Type
Research Article
Information
Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 241 - 248
Copyright
© Université Paul Sabatier, 2000

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