Biology:Bosmina
Bosmina is a genus of water fleas.[1] Its members can be distinguished from those of Bosminopsis (the only other genus in the family Bosminidae) by the separation of the antennae; in Bosminopsis, the antennae are fused at their bases.[2]
Bosmina occur in both marine, brackish, and freshwater environments.[1] They are filter feeders consuming algae and protozoans about 1–3 μm long. Bosmina are known to have a dual feeding mechanism. They can filter the water using their second and third legs and the first leg will grab the particles. The second and third legs have small setules attached to the seta to make a mesh-like structure for filtering.[3]
Some Bosmina species are non-native species, many of which pose a great threat to aquatic ecosystems.[4]
Species list
There are 28 accepted species:[1]
Subgenus Bosmina Baird, 1845
- De Melo & Hebert, 1994 Turner, 1894
- (O.F. Müller, 1785) Bosmina freyi
- Bosmina atlantaensis De Melo & Hebert, 1994
- Bosmina liederi Bosmina longirostris
Subgenus Eubosmina Seligo, 1900
- Bosmina striata Bosmina arctica
- Wesenberg-Lund, 1894 Baird, 1857
- Herrick, 1882 Bosmina tanakai
- Bosmina crassicornis Kotov, Ishida & Taylor, 2009
- Bosmina coregoni Lilljeborg, 1887
Subgenus Liederobosmina Brtek, 1997
- Bosmina tubicen Bosmina huaronensis
- Bosmina brehmi Lieder, 1962
- Daday, 1902 Delachaux, 1918
- Bosmina macrostyla Bosmina hagmanni
- Daday, 1905 Brehm, 1953
- Bosmina chilensis Stingelin, 1904
- G.O. Sars, 1904 Bosmina meridionalis
Subgenus Lunobosmina Taylor, Ishikane & Haney, 2002
- Bosmina oriens De Melo & Hebert, 1994
Subgenus Sinobosmina Lieder, 1957
- Bosmina fatalis Burckhardt, 1924
- Kořínek, Saha & Bhattacharya, 1999 Bosmina tripurae
Subgenus unassigned
- Bosmina globosa Lilljeborg, 1901
- Dybowski & Grochiwski, 1895 Leydig, 1860
- Schödler, 1864 Bosmina similis
- Bosmina macrorhynchus G.O. Sars, 1890
- Bosmina longinensis (Schmarda, 1854)
- Bosmina minima Bosmina janoviensis
- Schödler, 1865 Keilhack, 1908
- Bosmina rectirostris Bosmina macrorhyncha
- Schödler, 1866 Bosmina sarsi
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedWoRMS - ↑ Stanley L. Dodson, Carla E. Cáceres & D. Christopher Rogers (2009). "Cladocera and other Branchiopoda". in James H. Thorp. Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (3rd ed.). Academic Press. pp. 773–828. ISBN 978-0-12-374855-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=iOI9ifbikoQC&pg=PA795.
- ↑ Agnes H. Bleiwas and Pamela M. Stokes (1985). "Collection of large and small food particles by Bosmina". Limnology and Oceanography 30 (5): 1090–1092. doi:10.4319/lo.1985.30.5.1090. Bibcode: 1985LimOc..30.1090B.
- ↑ Kotov, Alexey A.; Karabanov, Dmitry P.; Van Damme, Kay (2022-09-09). "Non-Indigenous Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): From a Few Notorious Cases to a Potential Global Faunal Mixing in Aquatic Ecosystems". Water 14 (18): 2806. doi:10.3390/w14182806. ISSN 2073-4441.
Further reading
- Alexey A. Kotov, Seiji Ishida & Derek J. Taylor (2009). "Revision of the genus Bosmina (Cladocera: Bosminidae), based on evidence from male morphological characters and molecular phylogenies". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (1): 1–51. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00475.x. http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~djtaylor/papers/Kotov_etal2009.pdf.
External links
- "Bosmina longirostris". Zooplankton of the Great Lakes. Central Michigan University. http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/mcnau1as/zooplankton%20web/bosmina/bosmina.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q618980 entry
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