A taxonomical study on the rotifer fauna of cappadocia region central anatolia Turkey

Abstract

Many studies have been conducted on the rotifer species found in Turkey, but there are many regions that still remain to be investigated. Cappadocia (Nevsehir) is one such region that has not been studied in terms of diversity of the rotifer species. To our knowledge, the present study was the first to examine seasonal changes in rotifers in the Cappadocia region between February 2013 and April 2014. Seventy-two species of Rotifera belonging to 28 genera were recorded from 10 water bodies in the Nevsehir Province by repeatedly collecting samples in different seasons. Most species, (9, 13%) belonged to the genus Lecane followed by Trichocerca (7, 10%), Brachionus (7, 10%) and Cephalodella (5, 7%). From these results, we identified the richness of the Rotifera species in the Cappadocia region. All species that were found in this study were new records for each water source as well as for the Cappadocia (Nevsehir) region