Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1995 |
Authors: | A. Coomans, Rashid, F., Heyns, J. |
Journal: | HydrobiologiaHydrobiologia |
Volume: | 302 |
Pagination: | 119-131 |
Date Published: | Apr |
ISBN Number: | 0018-8158 |
Accession Number: | WOS:A1995RB62700005 |
Abstract: | Five species of Mononchida and Mononchulus nodicaudatus (v. Daday, 1899) Cobb, 1918 are reported from freshwater sediments at or near Boba Island, Okavango Swamps, Botswana. Illustrations are given for Mylonchulus lacustris (Cobb N.A. in Cobb M.V., 1915) Andrassy, 1958, Iontonchus risoceiae (Carvalho, 1955) Andrassy, 1958 and Cobbonchus spec. Two species of Mononchus Bastian, 1865, M. aquaticus Coetzee, 1968 and M. truncatus Bastian, 1865 were also found. The usually rare species M. nodicaudatus was well represented and its juvenile stages are described for the first time. |