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- Title
An Holarctic taxon in the Ethiopian region - a first record of Lathonura (Crustacea: Cladocera: Macrothricidae) for the Okavango swamps of subtropical Africa.
- Authors
Hart, Rob C.; Dumont, Henri J. F.
- Abstract
We report the discovery of a single specimen of an aquatic microcrustacean — Lathonura sp. (Crustacea: Cladocera: Macrothricidae) — in samples collected in the lower swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The finding has considerable zoogeographic significance, since Lathonura is generally described as an Holarctic zone taxon. The present discovery revitalizes a previous (rather obscure) record for the Bangweulu swamps (Zambia/Democratic Republic of Congo) of central Africa, adding support to the existence of boreal-tropical disjunctions recently described for other cladoceran taxa.
- Subjects
OKAVANGO River Valley; ETHIOPIA; BOTSWANA; BANGWEULU Swamps (Zambia); CENTRAL Africa; MACROTHRICIDAE; ANIMAL ecology; ZOOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTH African Journal of Science (Periodical)
- Publication
South African Journal of Science, 2005, Vol 101, Issue 11/12, p565
- ISSN
0038-2353
- Publication type
Article