An annotated checklist of the non-marine ostracods (Crustacea) of Algeria with some ecological notes

Abstract

A total of 47 non-marine ostracods are listed from Algeria including both, the species reported in literature and those collected from 117 water bodies in humid, semi-arid and arid regions of Algeria between 2012 and 2016. Twenty seven taxa were identified with three species (Cypris pubera, Limnocythere inopinata, Potamocypris variegata) new to Algeria and nine taxa (Eucypris kerkyrensis, E. lilljeborgi, Heterocypris rotundata, Ilyocypris decipiens, I. cf. japonica, Isocypris beauchampi, Potamocypris smaragdina, P. villosa, Prionocypris zenkeri) as new reports for North Africa. Considering the presence of highly diverse water bodies, seasonal differences and difficulties of access to water sources, the number of species listed in here is believed to be underestimated. Further studies are required to complete this list.

The Recent non-marine ostracods of Tunisia: an updated checklist with remarks on their regional distribution patterns and ecological preferences

“…For example, Ghigi (1932), Masi (1932) and Ramdani (1982) collected material and described new ostracod species from Morocco, and Klie (1943) described new species from Morocco and Mauritania. The only meaningful comparison that can be carried out is between Tunisian and North Algerian (Danielopol et al, 1990;Ghaouaci et al, 2017) ostracod faunas, being both relatively well known and resulting from commensurate sampling effort in a similar latitudinal range. Based on currently available data, the number of recorded genera is slightly higher in Tunisia than in Algeria (29 vs 25 genera), of which 21 are shared by the two countries; Martenscypridopsis, Notodromas, Physocypria and Prionocypris were found only in Algeria, whilst Bradleystrandesia, Candona, Cytherois, Cytheromorpha, Darwinula, Leptocythere, Psychrodromus and Vestalenula exclusively occurred in Tunisia.…”

Habitat destruction in wetland affects Ostracoda (Crustacea) species occurrence patterns amid different aquatic habitats

“…Indeed, five species (H. incongruens, H. salina (Brady), I. bradyi Sars, I. gibba Ramdohr, I. inermis Kaufmann) were able to reach to the canal after the construction activity where they were absent before. As it was suggested (Ku ¨lko ¨ylu ¨og ˘lu 2013; Akdemir et al 2016;Ghaouaci et al 2017;Yavuzatmaca 2020), these kind of species with cosmopolitan characteristics can be called a cosmoecious species due to their wide geographical distribution in variety of habitats and relatively high ecological tolerance ranges to different environmental variables. Therefore, they can survive even in highly disturbed or polluted habitats.…”

A new species of Cypris (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, with comments on the first ostracod named using the Linnean system

“…We considered C. triaculeata as a valid species (see discussion below), and therefore we included it separately from C. pubera in the distribution map. Distribution data was gathered from various sources, including databases such as NODE (Horne et al 1998) and GBIF (GBIF.org 2018), own unpublished data, and numerous published documents and reviews, in particular the works by Gauthier (1928), Fuhrmann & Goth (2011), Karan-Žnidaršič & Petrov (2007), Pieri et al (2015), Curry et al (2016), Özuluğ et al (2018), Ghaouaci et al (2017), Marrone et al (2019), and references included in these works. The compilation is not complete, but has been built focusing on attaining a large-scale knowledge of the distribution of the genus in Europe, trying to avoid leaving large areas uncovered.…”