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- Title
Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca) in Chile: a review of basic and applied biology.
- Authors
De los Rios-Escalante, Patricio; Salgado, Italo
- Abstract
The brine shrimp Artemia in Chile has been studied since the 1980s, initially on populations inhabiting shallow coastal and inland mountain ponds, and saltworks in northern and central Chile. Based on morphometric and molecular evidence, these populations were identified as A. franciscana. In the 1990s, A. persimilis was recorded from southern Patagonia, a species previously considered endemic to Argentina. Recently, two new populations of A. franciscana have been recorded, from one saline coastal pond in northern Chile and from a saltwork in central Chile. The scope for further research to increase both understanding of the strain characterization and basic population ecology descriptions of the Chilean brine shrimps and improve their conservation status is discussed. It is suggested that future studies should investigate first the management of local brine shrimp population for local aquaculture or conservation resources, other direction would be the effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposition that is notoriously high in brine shrimp habitats. This last factor is very important because the UVR is an important mutagen on the genetic structure of the populations. In this scenario, it is suggest a carefully management for introduced brine shrimp populations for local aquaculture for avoid alterations in native populations that due their genetic isolation would need conservation procedures for avoid local extinctions.
- Subjects
SHRIMP populations; ARTEMIA; MARINE invertebrate populations; AQUACULTURE; FISHERY statistics
- Publication
Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2012, Vol 40, Issue S3, p487
- ISSN
0718-560X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3856/vol40-issue3-fulltext-1