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Species Richness Estimate of Freshwater Rotifers (Animalia:Rotifera) of Western Maharashtra, India with Comments on their Distribution


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1 Department of Zoology, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar 414 001, India
2 Department of Zoology, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar 414 001
3 Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore 641 035, India
 

Of the 2031 Rotifera species described so far, the Oriental region harbours 78 monogonont genera with 486 species and 9 bdelloid genera with 58 species. Only a small fraction (~19%) of that total rotifer diversity is known from the Indian region when compared with the South-east Asian countries.
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Avinash Isaac Vanjare
Department of Zoology, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar 414 001, India
Chitra Avinash Vanjare Nee Panikar
Department of Zoology, Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar 414 001
Sameer Mukund Padhye
Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore 641 035, India

Abstract


Of the 2031 Rotifera species described so far, the Oriental region harbours 78 monogonont genera with 486 species and 9 bdelloid genera with 58 species. Only a small fraction (~19%) of that total rotifer diversity is known from the Indian region when compared with the South-east Asian countries.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi04%2F695-698