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Preliminary data on rotifers in the interstitial of the Ninnescah river, Kansas, USA

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One-hundred five rotifer species were identified from a sandy, plains river in Kansas, USA (the Ninnescah river). Of those rotifers identified, eighty occurred only in the interstitial sand, fifty-six in only the flow as plankton, and thirty-one from both habitats. Most species can be characterized as being more commonly found in littoral habitats, and not the interstitial or plankton. Lecane inermis (Bryce, 1892) had the highest density in the hygropsammon interstitial with an average 401 ind. 10 cm−3 at 1–3 cm depth in September 1993.

New records for the US include Encentrum wiszniewski Wulfert (1939), E. longidens Donner (1943) ant E. (Parencentrum) longipes Wulfert (1960). A small form of Lecane levistyla Olofsson (1917) is further examined and discussed.

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Turner, P.N. Preliminary data on rotifers in the interstitial of the Ninnescah river, Kansas, USA. Hydrobiologia 319, 179–184 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00013730

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