Spatiotemporal variations of zooplankton community in a shallow tropical brackish lagoon (Sontecomapan, Veracruz, Mexico)

Benítez-Díaz Mirón, Marcela I; Castellanos-Páez, María E; Garza-Mouriño, Gabriela; Ferrara-Guerrero, María J; Pagano, Marc

doi:10.1186/s40555-014-0059-6

Zoological Studies

Table 3 Seasonal abundances and abundance percentage of the zooplanktonic taxa identified

From: Spatiotemporal variations of zooplankton community in a shallow tropical brackish lagoon (Sontecomapan, Veracruz, Mexico)

	Symbol	DRY	RAINY	NORTE	% Abundance
	Symbol	(ind.m⁻³ ± SD)	(ind.m⁻³ ± SD)	(ind.m⁻³ ± SD)	Dry	Rainy	Norte
Phylum Rotifera Cuvier, 1817
Subclass Monogononta Plate, 1889
Superorder Pseudotrocha Kutikova, 1970
Order Ploima Hudson and Gosse, 1886
Family Brachionidae Ehrenberg, 1838
Brachionus plicatilis Müller, 1786	RBp	80.5 ± 222.2	0.5 ± 0.7		2.05	0.17	0.07
Brachionus angularis Gosse, 1851	Rba	0.1 ± 0.3	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Brachionus dimidiatus Bryce, 1931	RBd	0.8 ± 2.4	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.1	0.02	0.00	0.00
Keratella americana Carlin, 1943	RKa	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Keratella quadrata (Müller, 1786)^a	RKq	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Platyias quadricornis (Ehrenberg, 1832)	RPq	1.1 ± 3.3	0.1 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.03	0.03	0.00
Plationus patulus (Müller, 1786)	RPp	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Family Euchlanidae Ehrenberg, 1838
Euchlanis incisa Carlin, 1939^a	REi	0.0 ± 0.0	0.1 ± 0.3	0.0 ± 0.1	0.00	0.03	0.00
Euchlanis dilatata Ehrenberg, 1832^a	REd	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Family Lecanidae Remane, 1933
Lecane bulla (Gosse, 1851)	RLb	1.5 ± 4.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.6 ± 1.7	0.04	0.00	0.14
Lecane quadridentata (Ehrenberg, 1830)	RLq	0.5 ± 1.3	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.01	0.00	0.00
Lecane lunaris (Ehrenberg, 1832)	RLl	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Lecane nana (Murray, 1913)	RLn	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Family Lepadellidae Harring, 1913
Lepadella (Lepadella) donneri Koste, 1972	RLd	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Lepadella (Lepadella) patella (Müller, 1773)	RLp	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Family Mytilinidae Harring, 1913
Mytilina ventralis (Ehrenberg, 1830)^a	RMv	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Mytilina bisulcata (Lucks, 1912)^a	RMb	0.5 ± 1.6	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.01	0.00	0.00
Family Synchaetidae Hudson and Gosse, 1886
Synchaeta oblonga Ehrenberg, 1832^a	RSo	0.0 ± 0.0	0.2 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.07	0.00
Synchaeta bicornis Smith, 1904^a	RSb	0.0 ± 0.0	0.3 ± 0.5	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.10	0.00
Family Trichotriidae Harring, 1913
Trichotria tetractis (Ehrenberg, 1830)^a	RTt	0.1 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Superorder Pseudotrocha Kutikova, 1970
Order Flosculariaceae Harring, 1913
Family Testudinellidae Harring, 1913
Testudinella patina (Hermann, 1783)^a	RTp	0.3 ± 0.7	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.1	0.00	0.00	0.00
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Branchiopodae
Order Cladocera
Chydorus sp.^a	CCh	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Ceriodaphnia sp.^a	CCd	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Penilia avirostris (Dana, 1849)^a	CP	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Class Maxillopoda
Subclass: Copepoda
Non identified nauplii	Cna	2952 ± 7647	249 ± 294	393 ± 552	75.2	85.6	94.4
Superorder Gymnoplea
Order Calanoida
Family Acartiidae
Acartia tonsa Dana, 1852	CAt	54.5 ± 120.6	7.7 ± 19.8	0.5 ± 0.7	1.39	2.65	0.12
Family Centropagidae
Centropages velificatus (Oliveira, 1947)	CCv	0.0 ± 0.0	0.4 ± 1.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.14	0.00
Family Paracalanidae
Paracalanus aculeatus Giesbrecht, 1888	CPa	5.4 ± 10.3	0.9 ± 1.0	0.2 ± 0.6	0.14	0.31	0.05
Family Clausocalanoidea
Phaenna sp.^a	CHP	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0.1	0
Family Temoridae
Temora turbinata (Dana, 1852)	CTt	0.1 ± 0.3	0.1 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00
Family Paeudodiaptomidae
Pseudodiaptomus sp.	CPd	0.1 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.5	0.0 ± 0.1	0	0	0
Superorder Podoplea
Order Cyclopoida
Family Cyclopidae
Mesocyclops sp.	CMc	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00	0.03	0.00
Family Oithonidae
Oithona nana (Giesbrecht, 1892)^a	COn	685.7±	20.3±	2.3±	0	0.1	0
Oithona sp.	COsp	0.0 ± 0.0	0.9 ± 2.8	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0.2	0
Family Corycaeidae
Corycaeus sp.	CCy	0.0 ± 0.0	0.2 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0	0.3	0	0
Family Oncaeidae
Oncaea venusta Philippi, 1843.	COv	0.0 ± 0.0	0.5 ± 1.6	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0	0.2
Order Harpacticoida
Family Tachidiidae
Euterpina acutiformis Dana, 1852	CEa	11.5 ± 32.5	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.1	0.5	0
Family Tisbidae
Tisbe sp.^a	CHT	0.0 ± 0.0	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.1	0.1	0
Other Harpacticoida
Canuella sp.^a	CHC	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.7 ± 2.0	0	0	0
Unidentified 1	CH1	4.0 ± 5.1	1.6 ± 1.7	0.2 ± 0.3	0	0	0
Unidentified 2	CH2	0.4 ± 1.1	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0	0
Other Zooplankters
Ostracods	Osp	4.5 ± 12.2	0.3 ± 0.4	0.0 ± 0.0	3	6	0
Appendicularia	Asp	0.0 ± 0.0	0.5 ± 1.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0	5	0
Polychaeta (larvae)	Plv	15.1 ± 33.0	1.0 ± 1.2	1.0 ± 1.2	7	7	8
Polychaeta (adults)	Psp	0.0 ± 0.0	0.1 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.1	0	2	2
Nematoda	Nsp	0.4 ± 0.5	0.7 ± 1.3	0.0 ± 0.0	4	7	0
Chironomid larvae	Chlv	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	1	1	0
Hydrarachnidae	Hda	0.0 ± 0.0	0.02 ± 0.05	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0.03	0
Watermite	Wtm	0.1	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	2	4	2
Chaetognatha	Chsp	0.0 ± 0.1	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	1	1	0
Gasteropod larvae	Glv	29.5 ± 38.1	0.8 ± 1.0	16.2 ± 25.4	7	8	8
Cyrripeda larvae	Cyl	73.8 ± 223.8	3.8 ± 4.9	0.9 ± 1.5	8	9	6
Bivalve larvae	Blv	1.8 ± 5.6	0.0 ± 0.1	0.4 ± 1.3	4	2	1
Decapod larvae	Dlv	0.4 ± 1.1	0.0 ± 0.1	0.0 ± 0.1	3	2	1
Fish larvae	Flv	0.2 ± 0.4	0.1 ± 0.2	0.0 ± 0.0	2	3	2

Seasonal (survey) values of mean abundances (±standard deviation, SD) and of abundance percentage of the zooplanktonic taxa identified. The symbols used for the multivariate analysis are shown in the second column. ^aSpecies or genera recorded for first time in the lagoon.

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