The seston of the small, shallow, and tropical lake Monte Alegre was tested for quantity and quality for cladocerans by growth bioassays, which were carried out in spring (Daphnia gessneri and Moina micrura), summer (D. gessneri, M. micrura, Ceriodaphnia cornuta, and Simocephalus mixtus), and winter (D. gessneri and D. ambigua). Cohorts of newborns originating from ovigerous females collected i...

Central Mindanao, Philippines, is a center of the cultural wealth knowledge and botanical resources in southern archipelago. However, traditional plant remain unexplored, most tribal communities undocumented. Manobo tribe one populated diverse country, including secluded Tigwahanon-Manobo community Mt. Malimumu, San Fernando, Bukidnon, Philippines. Hence, this study provides ethnobotanical info...

Taxonomy of the genus Ceriodaphnia Dana, 1853 (Cladocera: Daphniidae) has been uncertain for a long time, the species richness was often underestimated due to (1) a morphological similarity among the species and (2) their great morphological inter- and intra- populational variability. Support for this conclusion comes from the first analysis of three molecular markers for Australian representat...

Seven species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1891 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, Yunnan, China are recognized, including six new species: Opopaea auriforma sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea cornuta Yin & Wang, 1984, Opopaea flabellata sp. nov. (female), Opopaea macula sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea rigidula sp. nov. (male, female), Opopaea semilunata sp. nov. (female), and Opopaea zhengi sp. nov....