Abstract
A study of 102 samples from almost all salt water bodies in Spain has allowed the preparation of a comprehensive list of anostracans, cladocerans and copepods living in such extreme environments. Among the 26 species recorded, 9 are halobionts, but 17 can exist in less saline waters. Of the halobionts, several are widely distributed throughout arid areas around the Mediterranean (Arctodiaptomus salinus, Cletocamptus retrogressus, Branchinectella media, Branchinella spinosa, Daphnia mediterranea, Moina salina); Branchinecta orientalis (= B. cervantesi) only appears in Guadiana watershed and toward the east of Hungary, and the Alona belonging to the A. elegans complex is a Spanish endemic. In the second group are many typically freshwater species which also appear occasionally in saline waters, and colonizers of wetlands in steppes, characteristically adapted to a wide range of salinity; one of the formers, Diaphanosoma cf. mongolianum, deserves closer study. The Spanish halobiontic fauna seems to be very old judging by the existence of some isolated species, e.g. B. orientalis may be a Tertiary relic. Persistence through time could have resulted from the continuous aridity of some Iberian localities during the Pleistocene and the ecological constancy of wetlands maintained by regional groundwater discharges.
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Alonso, M. (1990). Anostraca, Cladocera and Copepoda of Spanish saline lakes. In: ComĂn, F.A., Northcote, T.G. (eds) Saline Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0603-7_19
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