New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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THE FAUNA AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SOME ATHALASSIC SALINE WATERS IN NEW ZEALAND

I. A. E. Bayly

Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria

Abstract The fauna and chemical composition of two athalassic saline waters located near central Otago are discussed, and available rainfall and evaporation data for the region summarised. One water (dominated by Na and Cl) had a salinity of 15%o and contained the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis, the copepod Microcyclops monacanthus, the ostracod Diacypris, and larvae of the dipteran Ephydrella. The second water (dominated by Na and HCO3) had a salinity of 6%o and contained larvae of Ephydrella (adults of E. novaezealandiae occurred on the shore), and the hemipterans Sigara arguta, Anisops wakefieldi and Anisops assimilis. The relationship between Microcyclops monacanthus and M. arnaudi (an Australian species), and the basis of their current taxonomic separation is discussed in some detail. At a minimum, the faunas of Australian and New Zealand athalassic saline waters have in common the following distinctive (non-cosmopolitan) forms: Ephydrella, Diacypris, and two closely related halobiont species of Microcyclops.

N.Z. Jl mar. Freshwat. Res. 2: 105-17
(Received for publication 27 February 1967)

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