| Author Title Journal |
Nastasescu M, Popescu-Marinescu V (2004) Turbellaria spreading within iron gates area existing in benthic and phytophile fauna. Revue Roumaine de Biologie Serie de Biologie Animale 47(1-2): 97-105 |
Abstract / Notes
The work presents a review on turbellaria in the Iron Gates area, based both on data of the literature and on our own, unpublished data. The analyzed material enabled us to state that most of benthic species are concentrated within the higher area of the Iron Gates (i.e. Iron Gates I damlake), where they also reach the highest densities. Among them, the main taxa are Palaeodendrocoelum romanodanubialis, Otoplana antipai, Oligochaerus limnophyllus, all of them being Ponto-Caspian elements. The favourite substrata for the respective species are the stony, muddy and stony-muddy ones. Dugesia tigrina, usually a phytophilic one, was found both among the zoobenthic components and those on the vegetation. D. tigrina as well as D. gonocephala habitate, the former, usually and the latter exclusively on the macrophyte vegetation in the Iron Gates II damlake.| Home page -- (Main hierarchy) |