Kochi 0 0 0 Arthungal 366 996 0 Sakthi 0 0 0 Veli 0 0 0 Sakthi: Sakthikulangara; Nem: nematode; Poly: polychaete; Oligo: oligochaete; Turb: turbellarian; Hrpc: harpacticoid copepod; Gastro:
gastrotrich; Kinor: Kinorhyncha; Isop: isopod; Cnid: cnidarian.
Survival, culturing, adaptation and metal resistance of various rotifers and a
gastrotrich (Minor phyla) isolated from heavily polluted industrial effluents.
5 0.0001 0.1475 0.3118 nonlinear Euglena 2 0.0378 0.0378 -0.6601 decrease
Gastrotrich 2 0.1658 0.1658 -0.4746 no pattern Halteria 3 0.0533 0.0337 0.5692 increase Heliozoa sp.
To arrive at a better understanding of
gastrotrich systematics and phylogeny, we performed the first cladistic analysis of nearly all known
gastrotrich genera using 71 morphological characters.
Cosmopolitan complexes of cryptic species have been already shown for several species of meiofaunal metazoans without larvae such as nemerteans (Leasi, Andrade, & Norenburg, 2016),
gastrotrichs (Leasi & Todaro, 2009), nemertodermatids (Meyer-Wachsmuth, Curini-Galletti, & Jondelius, 2014) and annelids such as Hesionides gohari (Westheide, 1974; Schmidt & Westheide, 1999), Microphthalmus listensis (Westheide & Rieger, 1987), Nerilla antennata, (Goodrich, 1912; Schmidt & Westheide, 1997/98), and Petitia amphophtalma (Westheide & Hass-Cordes, 2001; Westheide & Schmidt, 2003).
The rest of taxa: nauplii larvae,
gastrotrichs, kinorhynchs, polychaetes, oligochaetes and cumaceans exhibited low relative abundances (below 1%) and scarce taxonomic representation.
Protists, nematodes, rotifers, small crustaceans, tardigrades,
gastrotrichs, turbellarians, oligochaetes, and insect larvae are regularly found from psammon habitats (Thane-Fenchel, 1968; Whitman and Clark, 1984; Schmid-Araya, 1998, Kotwicki et al., 2005a, 2005b).
Molecular phylogenies sometimes recover other groups such as rotifers and
gastrotrichs nested within the core lophotrochozoans (e.g., Passamaneck and Halanych, 2006), although these groups sometimes fall outside, as sisters to the core group taxa (e.g., Paps et al, 2009).