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Eighteen different rotifers were found at varying densities, depths and locations in the interstitial sand of a small, brackish-water Floridian beach. Most of the rotifers encountered were found in greatest numbers two meters from the waters edge, corresponding to the high-tide mark of the sampled beach. A single, dead Notholca (Pseudonotholca) japonnica kisselevi Kutikova (1970), previously known only from its original description locality in the south Kuril islands, Sea of Okhotsk, was found in the 6 cm depth core at mid-tide level.
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Turner, P.N. (1993). Distribution of rotifers in a Floridian saltwater beach, with a note on rotifer dispersal. In: Gilbert, J.J., Lubzens, E., Miracle, M.R. (eds) Rotifer Symposium VI. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1606-0_56
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