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A guide to the identification of subfossil chydorid Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from lake sediments of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: part II

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Use of subfossil cladoceran remains for paleolimnological studies in Mesoamerica, especially in Central America, is constrained by the poorly known composition of cladoceran communities. We examined sediments from 56 waterbodies in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras) and the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), and provide illustrations and descriptions of the remains of Chydoridae from the region, emphasizing their diagnostic traits. In total, 36 Chydoridae taxa, representing 24 genera, were recognized. The illustrations and descriptions of chydorid subfossils included here will enable paleolimnologists to recognize and identify such remains in lake sediment cores, thereby facilitating paleoenvironmental inferences from lake sites in Mesoamerica. Furthermore, data included here expand knowledge about the geographic distributions of Neotropical chydorids.

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The study was funded by the National Science Center, Poland (Grant Nos. 2014/13/B/ST10/02534 and 2012/05/B/ST10/00469) and the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (Grant for young researchers). Research was also supported by Program Pioneers into Practice Climate—KIC (Grant to Marta Wojewódka). We thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for comments that improved the original manuscript. We are very grateful to Dr. Izzy Bishop (Earth Watch Institute) who helped us with the English version of the paper and provided comments. We thank Sergio Cohuo, Laura Macario-González, Liseth Pérez, Antje Schwalb (Technische Universität Braunschweig), Margarita Caballero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Alexander Correa-Metrio (Instituto de Geologia, UNAM) for providing sediment samples and Juan Felipe Franco Gaviria (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) for providing a photo of Disparalona cf. hamata (Fig. 28). Special thanks to Cuauhtémoc Ruiz (Instituto Tecnológico de Chetumal), Ramón Beltrán (Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Mexico), and Lisa Heise (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico), for their excellent work in the field. We also thank all people involved in this work: Alexis Oliva and the team from the Asociación de Municipios del Lago de Yojoa y su área de influencia (AMUPROLAGO, Honduras), María Reneé Alvarez, Margarita Palmieri, Leonor de Tott (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala), Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CONAP, Guatemala), Néstor Herrera and Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (San Salvador, El Salvador).

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  1. Institute of Geological Sciences, Research Centre in Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00818, Warsaw, Poland

    M. Wojewódka, E. Zawisza & J. Stańczak

  2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991

    A. Y. Sinev

  3. Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya 18, Kazan, Russia, 420008

    A. Y. Sinev

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Wojewódka, M., Sinev, A.Y., Zawisza, E. et al. A guide to the identification of subfossil chydorid Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from lake sediments of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: part II. J Paleolimnol 63, 37–64 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00102-3

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