Abstract
145 rotifer species were previously known from Sudan, mostly from the Nile valley and the NE of the country. In the present paper planktonic, periphytic and benthic samples from the Western provinces of Darfur and Kordofan are examined. They contained 77 species, in one or different forms, of which 67% were cosmopolitan, 15% thermophilic, 14% tropicopolitan, and 4% temperate-boreal. No new taxa were found, but 23 species and one subspecies are new to Sudan, while one is new to Africa.
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De Ridder, M. Rotifers from Western Sudan. Hydrobiologia 179, 205–209 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00006633
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