Table 2 Rotifer species and their ecological characteristics recorded in the two sampling sites of Qi'ao Island

Bdelloid spp.

Anuraeopsis coelata de Beauchamp, 1932

+

Haloxenous

Asplanchna brightwellii Gosse, 1850

+

+

Haloxenous

Beauchampiella eudactylota (Gosse, 1886)

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus angularis Gosse, 1851

+

+

Euryhaline

Brachionus budapestinensis Daday, 1885

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus calyciflorus Pallas, 1766

+

+

Euryhaline

Brachionus caudatus Barrois & Daday, 1894

+

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus dimidiatus Bryce, 1931^a

+

Euryhaline

Brachionus diversicornis (Daday, 1883)

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus falcatus Zacharias, 1898

+

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus ibericus Ciros-Peréz, Gómez & Serra, 2001

+

+

Stenohaline

Brachionus murphyi Sudzuki, 1989

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus nilsoni Ahlstrom, 1940

+

+

Haloxenous

Brachionus plicatilis Müller, 1786

+

+

Stenohaline

Brachionus quadridentatus Hermann, 1783

+

Euryhaline

Brachionus rotundiformis Tschugunoff, 1921

+

+

Stenohaline

Brachionus rubens Ehrenberg, 1838

+

Euryhaline

Brachionus urceolaris Müller, 1773

+

+

Euryhaline

Cephalodella catellina (Müller, 1786)

+

Euryhaline

Cephalodella cf. gibba (Ehrenberg, 1830)

+

+

Euryhaline

Cephalodella cf. innesi Myers, 1924

+

+

Euryhaline?

Cephalodella cf. misgurnus Wulfert, 1937

+

Haloxenous?

Cephalodella sp.1

+

Cephalodella sp.2

+

Colurella adriatica Ehrenberg, 1831

+

+

Euryhaline

Colurella anodonta Carlin, 1939^a

+

Euryhaline

Colurella colurus (Ehrenberg, 1830)

+

Euryhaline

Colurella psammophila Segers & Chittapun, 2001^a

+

Haloxenous

Colurella sanoamuangae Chittapun, Pholpunthin & Segers, 1999^a

+

+

Haloxenous

Colurella uncinata bicuspidata (Ehrenberg, 1832)

+

Euryhaline

Colurella sp. 1

+

+

Euryhaline?

Colurella sp. 2

+

Encentrum marinum (Dujardin, 1841)

+

+

Euryhaline

Encentrum longidens Donner, 1943^a

+

+

Haloxenous

Encentrum wiszniewskii Wulfert, 1939^a

+

Haloxenous

Encentrum cf. limicola Otto, 1936

+

Stenohaline

Encentrum (Isoencentrum) sp. 1

+

Stenohaline

Encentrum (Pseudencentrum) sp. 2

+

Stenohaline

Encentrum sp. 3

+

Encentrum sp. 4

+

Epiphanes macroura (Barrois & Daday, 1894)

+

Euryhaline

Euchlanis dilatata Ehrenberg, 1832

+

Euryhaline

Filinia branchiata (Rousselet, 1901)

+

+

Haloxenous

Filinia longiseta (Ehrenberg, 1834)

+

+

Euryhaline

Filinia novaezealandiae Shiel & Sanoamuang, 1993

+

+

Haloxenous

Hexarthra fennica (Levander, 1892)

+

+

Stenohaline

Hexarthra intermedia (Wiszniewski, 1929)

+

+

Euryhaline

Hexarthra mira (Hudson, 1871)

+

Euryhaline

Hexarthra oxyuris (Sernov, 1903)^a

+

Stenohaline

Itura cf. deridderae Segers, 1993

+

Keratella cochlearis (Gosse, 1851)

+

Euryhaline

Keratella procurva (Thorpe, 1891)

+

Haloxenous

Keratella tropica (Apstein, 1907)

+

+

Euryhaline

Lecane baimaii Sanoamuang & Savatenalinton, 1999^a

+

Euryhaline

Lecane bulla (Gosse, 1851)

+

+

Euryhaline

Lecane closterocerca (Schmarda, 1859)

+

Euryhaline

Lecane donneri Chengalath & Mulamoottil, 1974^a

+

Euryhaline

Lecane grandis (Murray, 1913)

+

Stenohaline

Lecane hamata (Stokes, 1896)

+

Haloxenous

Lecane hastata (Murray, 1913)

+

Euryhaline

Lecane luna (Müller, 1776)

+

Euryhaline

Lecane punctata (Murray, 1913)

+

Euryhaline

Lecane pyriformis (Daday, 1905)

+

Haloxenous

Lecane quadridentata (Ehrenberg, 1830)

+

+

Euryhaline

Lecane stenroosi (Meissner, 1908)

+

+

Euryhaline

Lepadella acuminata (Ehrenberg, 1834)

+

Euryhaline

Lepadella patella (Müller, 1773)

+

+

Euryhaline

Lepadella sp.

+

Lindia sp.

+

Notholca sp.

+

+

Stenohaline

Paradicranophorus sinus De Smet, 2003^a

+

Stenohaline

Platyias quadricornis (Ehrenberg, 1832)

+

+

Polyarthra dolichoptera Idelson, 1925

+

Euryhaline

Polyarthra indica Segers & Babu, 1999^a

+

+

Haloxenous

Polyarthra vulgaris Carlin, 1943

+

+

Euryhaline

Polyarthra sp. 1

+

+

Haloxenous

Polyarthra sp. 2

+

+

Haloxenous

Proales similis de Beauchamp, 1907^a

+

+

Stenohaline

Resticula melandocus (Gosse, 1887)

+

Euryhaline

Synchaeta arcifera Xu, 1998

+

+

Stenohaline

Synchaeta bicornis Smith, 1904^a

+

+

Stenohaline

Synchaeta elsteri Hauer, 1963^a

+

+

Stenohaline

Synchaeta cf. kitina Rousselet, 1902

+

+

Euryhaline

Synchaeta oblonga Ehrenberg, 1832

+

+

Euryhaline

Synchaeta stylata Wierzejski, 1893

+

Euryhaline

Synchaeta vorax Rousselet, 1902^a

+

Stenohaline

Synchaeta sp.

+

Stenohaline

Testudinella patina (Hermann, 1783)

+

Euryhaline

Testudinella pseudobscura Wei, De Smet & Xu, 2011^b

+

Stenohaline

Testudinella quadilobata Wei, De Smet & Xu, 2011^b

+

Stenohaline

Testudinella zhujiangensis Wei, De Smet & Xu, 2010^b

+

+

Stenohaline

Trichocerca marina (Daday, 1890)

+

Stenohaline

Trichocerca pusilla (Jennings, 1903)

+

+

Euryhaline

Trichocerca sp.

+