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Some peculiar elements in the rotifer fauna of the atlantic sahara and of the atlas mountains

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In addition to ubiquitous forms, the Adrar of Mauretania has a number of rare tropicopolitan species, which occur here in relative abundance. In the Moroccon Atlas mountains, West-African forms meet boreo-alpine forms.

A population of Hexarthra from Atar, Mauretania, was intermediate between the fennica-group and the jenkinae-group.

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  1. Zoological Institute, The State University of Gent, Belgium

    Marc Coussement & Henri J. Dumont

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Contribution n° 28 from project ‘Limnology of the Sahara, under contract n° 2.0009/75 with the Fonds voor Kollektief Fundamenteel Onderzoek, Belgium

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Coussement, M., Dumont, H.J. Some peculiar elements in the rotifer fauna of the atlantic sahara and of the atlas mountains. Hydrobiologia 73, 249–254 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00019455

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