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The freshwater microcrustacea of Easter Island

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The ‘Cladocera’, Copepod and Ostracod fauna of Easter Island amounts to only five species. Three of these are wide-ranging, and four are cyclic parthenogens or at least capable of parthenogenesis. Two, the Cladoceran Alona weinecki and the Ostracod Sarscypridopsis sp., are more interesting from a biogeographic point of view, because restricted (apart from Easter Island) to the subantarctic. It is argued that this is strong evidence of their introduction by man, not by ‘natural’ passive dispersal.

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  1. Laboratory of Animal Ecology, University of Ghent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Gent, Belgium

    Henri J. Dumont

  2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Koen Martens

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Dumont, H.J., Martens, K. The freshwater microcrustacea of Easter Island. Hydrobiologia 325, 83–99 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028269

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