Abstract
A plankton sample from Lake Devikulam, a temperate, high-altitude lake in the Western Ghat range, Kerala state, Southern India contained 24 rotifer species. Its interest lies in the fact that, beside widespread eurythermic, warm-water and one Paleotropical species, one or two new, possibly endemic species were found. The geographic and climatologic isolation of the temperate habitats of the Western Ghats may account for this peculiar taxocoenosis. Polyarthra indica sp. n. is described. The trophi morphology of three Polyarthra species is documented using scanning electron microscopy and its relevance to the taxonomy of Polyarthra discussed.
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Segers, H., Babu, S. Rotifera from a high-altitude Lake in Southern India, with a note on the taxonomy of Polyarthra Ehrenberg, 1834. Hydrobiologia 405, 89–93 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003709212239
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