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Plankton hauls were made with 55 μm Hydrobios nets at one Jamieson and six Benin River stations at monthly intervals for 12 and 24 months during 1981/82 and 1986–1988, respectively. In all, a 100 km stretch of the Benin River and its tributary, the Jamieson, were covered. Fifty species of Rotifera were recorded. About 80% were cosmopolitan. The turbulent nature of the river is reflected in a diversity of Lecanidae found, although the dominant species were Keratella tropica (Apstein) and Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) (Brachionidae). Spatial investigations revealed the euryhaline nature of Brachionus plicatilis (O. F. Muller), and showed most Benin River rotifers to be freshwater inhabitants.
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Onwudinjo, C.C., Egborge, A.B.M. (1994). Rotifers of Benin River, Nigeria. In: Dumont, H.J., Green, J., Masundire, H. (eds) Studies on the Ecology of Tropical Zooplankton. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0884-3_7
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