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- Title
Updating Geographic Distribution of Artemia urmianaGünther, 1890 Branchiopoda: Anostraca in Europe: An Integrated and Interdisciplinary Approach.
- Authors
Theodore J. Abatzopoulos; Francisco Amat; Athanasios D. Baxevanis; Genuario Belmonte; Francisco Hontoria; Stefania Maniatsi; Salvatore Moscatello; Graziella Mura; Nickolaj V. Shadrin
- Abstract
Artemia urmianaa species previously considered endemic of Lake Urmia, NW Iran has been found in Lake Koyashskoe, a hypersaline lake on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula Ukraine. Therefore, this is the first record of A. urmianain Europe which updates its distribution. The species identification was based on an integrated and interdisciplinary approach using discriminant analysis of the morphometric characters, scanning electron microscopy, and molecular profile analysis. The data derived from the above mentioned approaches converge to significant similarity of the population under investigation with A. urmiana. The updated geographic distribution of the species, deriving from the present report, asks for additional contribution of other disciplines e.g., avian dispersal of cysts, history of salt trade to be finally clarified. At present we suggest that the punctuated geographic distribution of A. urmianais probably linked to its low dispersal capability, and we suppose that its presence in two distant sites could be explained by historical human salt trade between Lake Urmia and the ancient port of Kimmerik, whose remains have been found in the present Lake Koyashskoe. © 2009 WILEYVCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
- Subjects
LAKE Urmia (Iran); IRAN; UKRAINE; ARTEMIA; ZOOGEOGRAPHY; BRANCHIOPODA; IDENTIFICATION of animals; FAIRY shrimps; DISCRIMINANT analysis; MORPHOMETRICS; LAKES
- Publication
International Review of Hydrobiology, 2009, Vol 94, Issue 5, p560
- ISSN
1434-2944
- Publication type
Article