Distribution and characterization of Chilean populations of the brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)

Hypersaline habitats in Chile, from marine solar salt pans to saline lagoons and pools in Andean salars, were prospected in search of Artemia populations. These saline ecosystems were characterized through physico-chemical parameters and ionic composition of their brines. Biometrics of cysts and nauplii, as well as morphometrics by using multivariate discriminant analysis for adult specimens evidenced that the Chilean populations of brine shrimp belong to A. franciscana. Cross-breeding results supported the former hypothesis of conspecific Chilean populations, and their differences with A. persimilis, also endemic to the New World, but restricted to Argentinean sites.     

乳铁蛋白对大黄鱼仔鱼生长、存活和抗应激能力影响的研究

用不同水平(分别为T1组:0 mg/L;T2组:50 mg/L;T3组:100 mg/L;T4组:150 mg/L)乳铁蛋白(lactoferrin,简称LF)强化的卤虫(Artemia franciscana)幼体投喂9~23日龄大黄鱼(Pseudosciaena crocea)仔鱼。结果表明,摄食LF强化卤虫幼体的大黄鱼仔鱼其生长无明显改善(P0.05),但大黄鱼仔鱼的成活率和抗应激能力显著提高,T3(60%)和T4(80%)组的成活率显著高于T1(40%)和T2(30%)组(P0.05)。T4组大黄鱼仔鱼的耐干露能力最强,T4组和T3组的抗高盐度(65)应激能力明显的强于T1和T2组(P0.05),T4组和T3组之间无明显的差异(P0.05)。经4 h高温(32°C)曝露后,T1和T2组的仔鱼全部死亡,T4组和T3组的成活率分别为30%和23.3%。即仔鱼的成活率和抗应激能力受卤虫强化LF水平的影响显著,LF强化的有效剂量为不低于100 mg/L强化水体。     

The Diatom Nitzschia sicula (Castr.) Hust. and Naupliar Faecal Minipellets in the Adriatic sea

Abstract. Nitzschia sicula (C astr .) H ust ., a planktonic pennate diatom, dominated the microphytoplankton (10⁴-5 times 10⁴ cells. 1^-1) in the central, oligotrophic Southern Adriatic Pit waters (20-50m layer) in May 1990. Nauplii dominated the microzooplankton (3 indiv. 1^-1in the 0-50m layer, 130 μm mean body length) and produced a considerable amount of faecal (mini)pellets (1900. 1^-1 at 50m, mean diameter 47μm), which were compactly filled with N. sicula frustules. The subsurface accumulation of diatoms and nauplii was probably the result of both productive activity under specific hydrographic conditions and the convergence in a relatively strong southern Adriatic cyclonic gyre; the advective transport of populations along the shear zone, at the boundary between water masses of different thermo-haline characteristics may also have played a role. The amount of minipellets was high if compared with the data available from other seas. This was probably due to high production of minipellets, their slow sinking rate, and/or an absence of manipulation of the faecal material by zooplankton.     

Additions to the freshwater ostracod fauna of New Zealand

Several species of ostracods, new to New Zealand, are described, including Darwinula sphagna n.sp. and Cypridopsis obstinata n.sp. Limnocythere duffi Hornibrook, 1955 is placed in the genus Gomphocythere Sars, 1924, and a colour variation of Newnhamia fenestrata King, 1855 is discussed.