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Zoogeography of Epigean Freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Romania: Fragmented Distributions and Wide Altitudinal Variability
Zootaxa 3893 (2): 243–260 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.5 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8336FFDA-F1A5-4026-A5B6-CCEBFF84F40A Zoogeography of epigean freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Romania: fragmented distributions and wide altitudinal variability DENIS COPILAȘ-CIOCIANU1, MICHAŁ GRABOWSKI2, LUCIAN PÂRVULESCU3 & ADAM PETRUSEK1 1Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Viničná 7, 12844, Prague, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2University of Łódź, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] 3West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Pestalozzi 16A, 300115, Timișoara, Romania. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Inland epigean freshwater amphipods of Romania are diverse and abundant for this region has a favourable geographical position between the Balkans and the Black Sea. Excluding Ponto-Caspian species originating in brackish waters and freshwater subterranean taxa, there are 11 formally recognized epigean freshwater species recorded from this country. They belong to 3 genera, each representing a different family: Gammarus (Gammaridae, 8 species or species complexes), Niphargus (Niphargidae, 2 epigean species) and Synurella (Crangonyctidae, one species). Their large-scale distribution patterns nevertheless remain obscure due to insufficient data, consequently limiting biogeographical interpretations. We provide extensive new data with high resolution distribution maps, thus improving the knowledge of the ranges of these taxa. -
Biological and Landscape Diversity in Slovenia
MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA Biological and Landscape Diversity in Slovenia An overview CBD Ljubljana, 2001 MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL PLANNING ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA Published by: Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning - Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia Editors in chief and executive editors: Branka Hlad and Peter Skoberne Technical editor: Darja Jeglič Reviewers of the draft text: Kazimir Tarman Ph.D., Andrej Martinčič Ph.D., Fedor Černe Ph.D. English translation: Andreja Naraks Gordana Beltram Ph.D. (chapter on Invasive Species, ......., comments on the figures), Andrej Golob (chapter on Communication, Education and Public Awareness) Revision of the English text: Alan McConnell-Duff Ian Mitchell (chapter on Communication, Education and Public Awareness) Gordana Beltram Ph.D. Designed and printed by: Littera Picta d.o.o. Photographs were contributed by: Milan Orožen Adamič (2), Matjaž Bedjanič (12), Gordana Beltram (3), Andrej Bibič (2), Janez Božič (1), Robert Bolješič (1), Branka Hlad (15), Andrej Hudoklin (10), Hojka Kraigher (1), Valika Kuštor (1), Bojan Marčeta (1), Ciril Mlinar (3), Marko Simić (91), Peter Skoberne (57), Baldomir Svetličič (1), Martin Šolar (1), Dorotea Verša (1) and Jana Vidic (2). Edition: 700 copies CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 502.3(497.4)(082) 574(497.4)(082) BIOLOGICAL and landscape diversity in Slovenia : an overview / (editors in chief Branka Hlad and Peter Skoberne ; English translation Andreja Naraks, Gordana Beltram, Andrej Golob; photographs were contributed by Milan Orožen Adamič... et. al.). - Ljubljana : Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, 2001 ISBN 961-6324-17-9 I. -
The 17Th International Colloquium on Amphipoda
Biodiversity Journal, 2017, 8 (2): 391–394 MONOGRAPH The 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda Sabrina Lo Brutto1,2,*, Eugenia Schimmenti1 & Davide Iaciofano1 1Dept. STEBICEF, Section of Animal Biology, via Archirafi 18, Palermo, University of Palermo, Italy 2Museum of Zoology “Doderlein”, SIMUA, via Archirafi 16, University of Palermo, Italy *Corresponding author, email: [email protected] th th ABSTRACT The 17 International Colloquium on Amphipoda (17 ICA) has been organized by the University of Palermo (Sicily, Italy), and took place in Trapani, 4-7 September 2017. All the contributions have been published in the present monograph and include a wide range of topics. KEY WORDS International Colloquium on Amphipoda; ICA; Amphipoda. Received 30.04.2017; accepted 31.05.2017; printed 30.06.2017 Proceedings of the 17th International Colloquium on Amphipoda (17th ICA), September 4th-7th 2017, Trapani (Italy) The first International Colloquium on Amphi- Poland, Turkey, Norway, Brazil and Canada within poda was held in Verona in 1969, as a simple meet- the Scientific Committee: ing of specialists interested in the Systematics of Sabrina Lo Brutto (Coordinator) - University of Gammarus and Niphargus. Palermo, Italy Now, after 48 years, the Colloquium reached the Elvira De Matthaeis - University La Sapienza, 17th edition, held at the “Polo Territoriale della Italy Provincia di Trapani”, a site of the University of Felicita Scapini - University of Firenze, Italy Palermo, in Italy; and for the second time in Sicily Alberto Ugolini - University of Firenze, Italy (Lo Brutto et al., 2013). Maria Beatrice Scipione - Stazione Zoologica The Organizing and Scientific Committees were Anton Dohrn, Italy composed by people from different countries. -
Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) Species in Hungary: Literature Review, Current Taxonomy and the Updated Distribution of Valid Taxa
Zootaxa 3974 (3): 361–376 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3974.3.4 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:54B50671-22A8-4BB1-9233-49133E598CB9 Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) species in Hungary: literature review, current taxonomy and the updated distribution of valid taxa GERGELY BALÁZS1, DOROTTYA ANGYAL2 & ELŐD KONDOROSY3 1 Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest, H-1117. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13., Budapest, H-1088. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Department of Animal Sciences and Animal Husbandry, University of Pannonia, Deák Ferenc u. 16., Keszthely, H-8360. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Research of the Hungarian Niphargus species is a rather neglected field. This is due to the growing distance between the level of knowledge about Hungarian species and the elaboration determined by the international publications, which had caused a hardly negotiable inconvenience in the judgment of the state of the Hungarian species. The clarification of spe- cies in questionable positions could be the starting point of further inland research. During our work, the species with Hun- garian distributions were assigned based on the literature’s data, and were evaluated with morphological examinations of the specimens collected by us from their type localities and other habitats. Considering the validity of the species we cre- ated three categories. Eight of the 20 species proved to be invalid or non-inland species, three remain in an uncertain tax- onomic state, while nine are classifiable into the ’valid Hungarian species’ category. -
CBD First National Report
FIRST NATIONAL REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY July 2010 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................... 3 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................... 4 2. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Geographic Profile .......................................................................................... 5 2.2 Climate Profile ...................................................................................................... 5 2.3 Population Profile ................................................................................................. 7 2.4 Economic Profile .................................................................................................. 7 3 THE BIODIVERSITY OF SERBIA .............................................................................. 8 3.1 Overview......................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Ecosystem and Habitat Diversity .................................................................... 8 3.3 Species Diversity ............................................................................................ 9 3.4 Genetic Diversity ............................................................................................. 9 3.5 Protected Areas .............................................................................................10 -
On Two Members of the Genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Niphargidae) from the Balkan Peninsula, N
Acta entomologica serbica, 2013, 18(1/2): 207-235 UDC 595.371.063.8(497.11) ON TWO MEMBERS OF THE GENUS NIPHARGUS SCHIÖDTE, 1849 (CRUSTACEA: NIPHARGIDAE) FROM THE BALKAN PENINSULA, N. DEELEMANAE GREX SSP. N. AND N. JURINACI S. KAR. 1950 (CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE AMPHIPODA 271) GORDAN S. KARAMAN Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 20000 Podgorica, Montenegro E mail: [email protected] Abstract Two members of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda: Gammaridea: Niphargidae) from the subterranean waters of the Balkan Peninsula are treated. Niphargus deelemanae grex ssp. n. is described and figured from Šarbanovac in E Serbia. The species Niphargus jurinaci S. Karaman 1950, scantily described and figured from Crni Lug near Ogulin in Croatia, is redescribed and figured more in detail, based on the type material. The taxonomical position and relations of these two taxa within the genus Niphargus are discussed. KEY WORDS: Amphipoda, taxonomy, Niphargus deelemanae grex ssp. n., jurinaci, redescription, Balkan Peninsula. Introduction The subterranean genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda: Gammaridea: Niphargidae) is widely distributed through Europe and the Near East with over 300 known species and subspecies presented in various types of subterranean waters (caves, springs, subterranean torrents, deep lakes, etc.). The oldest known fossil members of the genus Niphargus are from the Tertiary Period (Eocene), and settled in the freshwaters at various times (G. KARAMAN, 1984). 208 G.S. KARAMAN Recently a new fossil, an amphipod from the Triassic Period, was described in Nevada, USA, Rosagammarus minichiellus (MCMENAMIN et al., 2013) altering our knowledge of fossil Amphipoda to the Mesozoic Period. -
Updates to the Sporadic Knowledge On
A peer-reviewed open-access journal SubterraneanUpdates Biology to 33:the 71–85 sporadic (2020) knowledge on microsporidian infections in groundwater amphipods 71 doi: 10.3897/subtbiol.33.48633 RESEARCH ARTICLE Subterranean Published by http://subtbiol.pensoft.net The International Society Biology for Subterranean Biology Updates to the sporadic knowledge on microsporidian infections in groundwater amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae) Daniel Grabner1, Dieter Weber2, Alexander M. Weigand3 1 University of Duisburg-Essen, Aquatic Ecology and Centre for Water and Environmental Research, Univer- sitätsstr. 5, 45141 Essen, Germany 2 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Evolutionary Biology & Ecology group, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium 3 Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg, 25 Rue Munster, 2160 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Corresponding author: Alexander M. Weigand ([email protected]) Academic editor: O. T. Moldovan | Received 20 November 2019 | Accepted 20 January 2020 | Published 13 February 2020 http://zoobank.org/78CFBE17-0918-455A-8813-C92324DBFCFE Citation: Grabner D, Weber D, Weigand AM (2020) Updates to the sporadic knowledge on microsporidian infections in groundwater amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae). Subterranean Biology 33: 71–85. https://doi. org/10.3897/subtbiol.33.48633 Abstract A set of 69 specimens from 19 groundwater species of the genera Niphargus, Niphargellus, Microniphargus and Crangonyx was genetically screened for microsporidian infections. Samples mostly originated from groundwater-dependent spring environments (71%), natural caves (9%) and artificial caverns/tunnels (13%). Amphipod hosts were identified by morphology and/or molecular data, whereas microsporidian parasites were characterised by a genetic screening assay targeting a section of the small subunit rRNA gene. Five microsporidian species (Dictyocoela duebenum; Nosema sp.; Hyperspora aquatica and two unde- scribed Microsporidium spp.) were revealed from 13 host specimens (Niphargus schellenbergi; N. -
Discovery of Subterranean Amphipod Niphargus Stygius (Schiodte, 1847)
NATURA SLOVENIAE 21(1): 57-59 Prejeto / Received: 6. 8. 2019 FIELD NOTE Sprejeto / Accepted: 8. 8. 2019 Discovery of subterranean dvorana«. As the second author tried to drink the water from the water puddles, he noticed its amphipod Niphargus stygius unusually sour and salty taste. We found and (Schiødte, 1847) (Amphipoda: collected one amphipod in one of the puddles filled with dripping water, and a sample of water was Niphargidae) in a cave drip taken directly from the drip. We measured abiotic pool with increased salinity parameters of the water in the lab on the same day, when returning to the lab of the Department Najdba slepe postranice Niphargus of Biology in Ljubljana, using portable multimeter CyberScan PCD650 (Eutech Instruments). The stygius (Schiødte, 1847) (Amphipoda: specific electric conductivity and salinity level were Niphargidae) v jamski luži prenikle increased (Tab. 1) compared to normal values for vode s povečano slanostjo freshwater, having salinity less than 0.5 ‰ (Venice system 1958). Maja ZAGMAJSTER, Teo DELIĆ, SubBioLab, Department of Biology, Biotechnical We repeated the visit two weeks later, on Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 9. 3. 2012, when we checked only the Northern 101, Ljubljana; branch up to app. 600 m from the entrance, to the E-mail: [email protected] lake in »Skalni rov«. This time, there was no active water drip in »Podorna dvorana«, but the water With more than 430 species currently described, remained in puddles on the cave floor. We the subterranean genus Niphargus is the species collected the water from two different puddles, richest genus of amphipods (Fišer 2019). -
Environmental DNA Reveals That Rivers Are Conveyer Belts of Biodiversity Information
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/020800; this version posted June 11, 2015. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Environmental DNA reveals that rivers are conveyer belts of biodiversity information 2 Kristy Deiner1*, Emanuel A. Fronhofer1,2, Elvira Mächler1 and Florian Altermatt1,2 3 1 Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Aquatic 4 Ecology, Überlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland. 5 2 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, 6 Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland. 7 Running title: Rivers are conveyer belts of eDNA 8 Keywords: eDNA transport, metabarcoding, COI, river networks, community sampling, land 9 water interface, macroinvertebrates, biomonitoring 10 Type of Article: Letters 11 Abstract: 147 12 Main text: 4879 13 Text box: 360 14 Number of references: 50 15 Number of figures: 5 16 Number of tables: 1 17 *Corresponding author K. Deiner: Ph. +41 (0)58 765 67 35; [email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/020800; this version posted June 11, 2015. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 18 Abstract (150 max) 19 DNA sampled from the environment (eDNA) is becoming a game changer for uncovering 20 biodiversity patterns. -
Comparison of Some Epigean and Troglobiotic Animals Regarding Their Metabolism Intensity
International Journal of Speleology 48 (2) 133-144 Tampa, FL (USA) May 2019 Available online at scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs International Journal of Speleology Off icial Journal of Union Internationale de Spéléologie Comparison of some epigean and troglobiotic animals regarding their metabolism intensity. Examination of a classical assertion Tatjana Simčič1* and Boris Sket2 1Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Abstract: This study determines oxygen consumption (R), electron transport system (ETS) activity and R/ETS ratio in two pairs of epigean and hypogean crustacean species or subspecies. To date, metabolic characteristics among the phylogenetic distant epigean and hypogean species (i.e., species of different genera) or the epigean and hypogean populations of the same species have been studied due to little opportunity to compare closely related epigean and hypogean species. To fill this gap, we studied the epigean Niphargus zagrebensis and its troglobiotic relative Niphargus stygius, and the epigean subspecies Asellus aquaticus carniolicus in comparison to the troglobiotic subspecies Asellus aquaticus cavernicolus. We tested the previous findings of different metabolic rates obtained on less-appropriate pairs of species and provide additional information on thermal characteristics of metabolic enzymes in both species or subspecies types. Measurements were done at four temperatures. The values of studied traits, i.e., oxygen consumption, ETS activity, and ratio R/ETS, did not differ significantly between species or subspecies of the same genus from epigean and hypogean habitats, but they responded differently to temperature changes. -
On Some Species of the Families Niphargidae and Gammaridae from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Contribution to the Knowledge of The27 Amphipoda 283)
On some species of the families Niphargidae and Gammaridae from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Contribution to the knowledge of the27 Amphipoda 283) ЦРНОГОРСКА АКАДЕМИЈА НАУКА И УМЈЕТНОСТИ ГЛАСНИК ОДЈЕЉЕЊА ПРИРОДНИХ НАУКА, 21, 2016. ЧЕРНОГОРСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК И ИСКУССТВ ГЛАСНИК ОТДЕЛЕНИЯ ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ НАУК, 21, 2016 THE MONTENEGRIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTION OF NATURAL SCIENCES, 21, 2016. UDK 595.3(497.5) UDK 595.3(497.6) Gordan S. Karaman* ON SOME SPECIES OF THE FAMILIES NIPHARGIDAE AND GAMMARIDAE FROM CROATIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 283) Abstract New data of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda, Niphargidae) from Croatia are presented. Niphargus radzai G. Kar., 2014, known from Ravno Vrdovo on Dinara Mt., is discovered in Mareljina Jama Cave near Golubinka Cave, Biteljić Donji (Croatia), and some new data of this species are presented. The new subspecies Niphargus zagorae sterilis, ssp. n. from four caves in Vr- dovo region (Croatia) is described and figured, and its relation to the nominal sub- species, N. zagorae zagorae Švara et al., 2015 is discussed. New data of the Gammarus balcanicus Schäferna, 1922 and Echinogammarus veneris (Heller, 1865) (Amphipoda, Gammaridae) from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are given. Keywords: taxonomy, Amphipoda, Niphargus radzai sterilis, new, Gammarus balcanicus, Echinogammarus veneris, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina O NEKIM VRSTAMA FAMILIJA NIPHARGIDAE I GAMMARIDAE IZ HRVATSKE I BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE (283. Prilog poznavanju Amphipoda) Sažetak Prezentirani su novi podaci o rodu Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda, Nip- hargidae) iz Hrvatske: Niphargus radzai G. Kar., 2014, poznat iz lokaliteta Ravno * Gordan S. -
First Observations on the Phylogeny of the Families Gammaridae
J N H, 2003, 37, 20, 2461–2486 First observations on the phylogeny of the families Gammaridae, Crangonyctidae, Melitidae, Niphargidae, Megaluropidae and Oedicerotidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea), using small subunit rDNA gene sequences ULRIKE ENGLISCH†‡, CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN‡ and JOHANN WOLFGANG WA¨ GELE‡ †Lehrstuhl fu¨r Spezielle Zoologie, Ruhr-Universita¨t Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] ‡Humboldt-Universita¨t zu Belrin, Museum fu¨r Naturkunde, Institut fu¨r Systematische Zoologie, 10099 Berlin, Germany (Accepted 21 February 2002) This study examines amphipod phylogeny based on small subunit (18S) rDNA sequence data. Complete sequences of 25 species representing six families were used to test the phylogenetic information content of this gene for reconstruction of amphipod phylogeny. The alignment proved to be informative for most of the studied taxa. The monophyly of the families Gammaridae, Crangonyctidae, Niphargidae and Oedicerotidae is supported. The Melitidae are not monophyletic in the reconstructed topologies, but weak molecular evidence for the monophyly of this group could be observed in spectra of supporting positions. A close relationship of Gammaridae+Melitidae or Gammaridae+Crangonyctidae is not supported, rather there are supporting positions for the incompatible sister-group relationship (Gammaridae+Niphargidae) and (Crangonyctidae+Niphargidae). The molecular evidence is in favour of the latter relationship. The evolution of cephalothoracic apodemes is discussed in the light of other phylogenetic hypotheses resulting from molecular data. K: rDNA, Crustacea, Amphipoda, molecular phylogeny, parsimony, maximum likelihood, Physid. Introduction During the last decade considerable advances concerning the taxonomy of amphi- pods have been achieved (Barnard and Karaman, 1991). Nevertheless, the phylogen- etic position of the major amphipod taxa is controversial.