Microcrustacean Fauna of Lake Sazlıgöl (Menemen, İzmir)

Authors: MUSTAFA RUŞEN USTAOĞLU, SÜLEYMAN BALIK, DİDEM ÖZDEMİR MİS, CEM AYGEN

Abstract: Thirty-five microcrustacean taxa, comprising 21 species of cladocerans, eight species and one subspecies of copepods, and five species of ostracods were identified from Lake Sazlıgöl during a 17-month research period in 1998-1999. Of these species, Eucypris ornata (Müller, 1776) (Ostracoda) was recorded as new species for the freshwater fauna of Turkey.

Keywords: Crustacea, Cladocera, Copepoda, Ostracoda, Fauna, Sazlıgöl

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