Biodiversity of large branchiopods of Australian saline lakes

Title: Biodiversity of large branchiopods of Australian saline lakes
Creator: Timms, Brian V.
Relation: Current Science Vol. 96, Issue 1, p. 74-80
Relation: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jan102009/contents.htm
Publisher: Indian Academy of Science
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: Australia is a land of intermittent saline lakes, and there is a commensurate abundance of halophilic large branchiopods. These include two species of Artemia; a species swarm of Parartemia; a few Branchinella spp., including B. simplex to 62 ppt, Eocyzicus parooensis to 24 ppt, a variety of other spinicaudatans, and Triops sp. (near australiensis) to 93 ppt. Despite the low diversity of freshwater forms, halophilic species are higher in Australia, and upper limits equal or are higher than elsewhere in the world. Reasons for this are explored and osmotic mechanisms outlined.
Subject: Australian saline lakes; diversity and salinity tolerance; endemic crustaceans; osmotic mechanisms
Identifier: uon:7414
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807482
Identifier: ISSN:0011-3891
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