Abstract
Knowledge of rotifers from Greenland is poor. Those from marine and other saline waters have especially been poorly investigated. The authors have studied meiofauna from different saline localities at Disko Island, West Greenland on several occasions from 1990 to 1999. Samples from the intertidal zone, rock pools and a saline, radioactive spring contained 16 rotifer species. Six of these are new to Greenland. The radioactive salt spring has previously been suggested to contain marine relicts dating back to a warmer period with a higher sea level. The samples from the spring, however, did not yield any marine rotifers. It did contain the euryhaline Cephalodella gracilis. A description of its trophi adds to the known variability of this species. The trophi of Notholca striata and N. psammarina are studied in detail using light and scanning electron microscopy for the first time, and aspects of their taxonomy are discussed.
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Funch, P., Sørensen, M.V. (2001). Rotifers in saline waters from Disko Island, West Greenland. In: Sanoamuang, L., Segers, H., Shiel, R.J., Gulati, R.D. (eds) Rotifera IX. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0756-6_36
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