Invertebrate predation on planktonic rotifers

✍ Scribed by Craig E. Williamson

• Book ID: 104621913
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 845 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00045996

✦ Synopsis

Representatives from many taxa including the Protozoa, Cnidaria, Rotifera, Cladocera, Cyclopoida, Calanoida, Harpacticoida, Chaoboridae, and Mysidacea are reported to feed on rotifers . There are few good quantitative data on predation on rotifers by any of these taxa with two exceptions, Rotifera and Cyclopoida . The present review focuses on the dynamics of Cyclopoid copepod predation . Intense and selective cyclopoid copepod predation makes it an important factor to consider in studies of the population ecology and community structure of rotifer populations . Limited information available on other predatory invertebrate taxa suggests that rotifer production may contribute extensively to their diets . Table 1 . Invertebrate predators of planktonic rotifers CLADOCERA Bythotrephes longimanus Leptodora kindtii Polyphemus pediculus CYCLOPOIDA Acanthocyclops venustus A . vernalis Acanthocyclops viridis Cyclops bicuspidatus Cyclops bicuspidatus thomasi C . scutifer C. strenuus C. vicinus rotifers rotifers rotifers Asplanchna priodonta, Brachionus, Conochilus, Keratella rotifers rotifers Asplanchna girodi rotifers Asplanchna girodi (juveniles), Brachionus calycii lorus Keratella cochlearis Ascomorpha ecaudis, Asplanchna priodonta, Keratella cochlearis, K.