New data on rotifers (Rotifera) from European waterbodies

Registro biológico
Última versión publicado por Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University el ene. 15, 2026 Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University
Fecha de publicación:
15 de enero de 2026
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Descripción

This survey is the result of long-term study of rotifers in European waters conducted by the authors of the dataset. All major types of European freshwater and brackish inland water bodies were studied - lotic (rivers, streams, brooks, waterfalls, canals), lentic (lakes, ponds, swamps, bogs, marshes, puddles, cryoconite holes and other temporary waterbodies) and transitional (estuaries). The littoral zone of the Black Sea and the south coast of La Manche represent marine biotopes in this dataset.The studies were conducted from 1976 to 2016 during which period more than 961 samples were collected and processed. Sampling covered 16 countries, the territory from Arctic to Mediterranean including 21 localities with protected status (with the necessary permissions). Part of the material from Northern Ukraine was collected by E. Ovander in Chernobyl exclusion zone and nearby regions before the Chernobyl catastrophe (1977-1981). Latitudes ranged from N 79.0 to N 40.9, and altitudes from 0 to 1398 m above sea level. The total number of rotifer records in the dataset is 4,862, these include 472 taxa of the species rank (species and subspecies) belonging to 83 genera (67 of Monogononta, 15 of Bdelloidea, and 1 of Seisonida). For some samples, the dataset also includes measurements of the environmental parameters (water temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, salinity) along with the rotifer densities per L of volume.

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Iakovenko N, Lukashanets D, Ejsmont-Karabin J, Bielańska-Grajner I, Ovander E, Tsavkova V, Fontaneto D (2026). New data on rotifers (Rotifera) from European waterbodies. Version 1.10. Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=aquatic_rotifers&v=1.10

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Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: 36c840bb-6a98-4c8c-bd29-0b84b426b95c.  Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por Participant Node Managers Committee.

Palabras clave

Occurrence; bdelloids; monogononts; lotic; lentic; species

Contactos

Nataliia Iakovenko
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos
  • Originador
  • Punto De Contacto
Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
  • Kamýcká 129 Praha 6 - Suchdol
165 00 Prague
CZ
  • +420775513470
Dzmitry Lukashanets
  • Originador
  • Punto De Contacto
Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University
  • Universiteto ave. 17
92294 Klaipeda
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  • +37069379994
Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin
  • Originador
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 3 Pasteur Str.
02-093 Warsaw
PL
Irena Bielańska-Grajner
  • Originador
University of Silesia
  • Bankowa 12
40-007 Katowice
PL
Eleonora Ovander
  • Originador
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01054 Kyiv
UA
Veselka Tsavkova
  • Originador
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2 Gagarin Street
1113 Sofia
BG
Diego Fontaneto
  • Originador
Water Research Institute of the National Research Council
  • Viale Tonolli 50
28922 Verbania Pallanza

Cobertura geográfica

(i) Austria – Tyrol; (ii) Belarus – Minsk, Brest, Vitebsk, Grodno, Gomel and Mogiliov oblast; (iii) Bulgaria – Silistra, Sofia and Plovdiv oblast, Srebarna Nature Reserve; (iv) Finland - Kanta-Häme region, Torronsuo National Park; (v) France – Brittany, coast near Roscoff; (vi) Germany – Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony states; (vii) Italy – Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria regions; (viii) Montenegro – Lake Skadar; (ix) Netherlands - Westerwolde municipality; (x) North Macedonia – Lake Prespa; (xi) Norway – Svalbard archipelago; (xii) Poland – Lesser Poland, Lower Silesian, Lubusz, Podlaske, Pomeranian, Warmian-Masurian voivodeships; (xiii) Sweden – Kronoberg region; (xiv) The Czech Republic – Central Bohemian, South Bohemian, Moravian-Silesian regions; (xv) The United Kingdom – South East England; (xvi) Ukraine –Cherkassy, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Donets’k, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Kharkiv, Khmelnyts’k, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia oblast and AR Crimea.

Coordenadas límite Latitud Mínima Longitud Mínima [40,98, -3,98], Latitud Máxima Longitud Máxima [79,07, 54,09]

Cobertura taxonómica

All records in the dataset are of Phyllum Rotifera, Classes Eurotatoria (both of Subclass Monogononta and Bdelloidea) and Pararotatoria. The only recorded species of Pararotatoria is Seison nebaliae Grube, 1859 found on crustacean Nebalia sp. from the southern coast of La Manche. Monogonont rotifers (orders Ploima, Collothecaceae and Flosculariaceae) accounted for the majority of records (68.8%). Species with uncertain affiliation or potentially new for science were indicated as Genus sp., those different from the nominal description (mostly potentially new) are designated as cf.

Filo Rotifera (rotifers)

Cobertura temporal

Periodo de formación 1976-2016

Datos del proyecto

The project deals with the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG), which is one of the key structural characteristics of biodiversity. In its initial concept, LDG refers to the quantitative changes (increase or decrease) in species richness from the poles to the equator. In most terrestrial macroorganisms, LDG is characterized by higher diversity near the equator, while aquatic species tend to show increasing diversity toward the poles. However, for limno-terrestrial microfauna (microscopic invertebrates inhabiting wet soil, moss, and lichens) the presence and shape of LDG remain unclear. The main aim of the project is to estimate the prominence and shape of the global latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) in limno-terrestrial bdelloid rotifers (Bdelloidea, Rotifera Bdelloidea), which represent one of the most poorly studied groups of microfauna. The general strategy of the project involves the use of both conventional and metabarcoding techniques (extraction and sequencing of total DNA from already collected frozen soil and moss samples) to estimate and compare diversity metrics. Secondly, the project aims to inventory rotifer biodiversity in less studied regions, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctica. Two European universities are involved in the project: Klaipėda University as the lead applicant, and the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague as the co-applicant.

Título ROTISFERA 'Global patterns of microinvertebrate distribution: does diversity decrease poleward in rotifers (Rotifera: Bdelloidea)?’
Identificador NDICI-GEO-NEAR/2022/434-092-0068
Fuentes de Financiación EU
Descripción del área de estudio The project encompasses all major regions of the Earth.

Personas asociadas al proyecto:

Dzmitry Lukashanets
  • Autor
Nataliia Iakovenko
  • Autor

Métodos de muestreo

Sampling was performed using standard hydrobiological methods (Wallace et al 2006). Apstein nets were used for collecting plankton, plastic or glass samplers for collecting benthos, periphyton and psammon. Living samples were transported to the laboratory immediately after the collection in the dark and in thermally isolated vials or identified on site using mobile laboratory with the x400 total magnification field microscope. Fixation with 37% formaldehyde was used for preservation of the samples on site. The volume of the sample varied from 1-50 L concentrated to 250 mL (planktonic samples) to 50-250 mL (periphyton, benthos and psammon); rotifer densities were recalculated to -1L afterwards. All sampling sites were georeferenced. The environmental parameters (water temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, salinity) were measured on site using handheld digital devices, in the moment of collection (plankton) or immediately after in the collection vial (periphyton, benthos).

Área de Estudio All samples used in the dataset were collected within the frame of several research projects focused on the biodiversity and ecology of aquatic microfauna in Europe. The collections were either processed on site during the expeditions and field excursions (living specimen) or preserved fixed in 37% water solution of formaldehyde (preserved specimen).
Control de Calidad All people who identified rotifers are recognized specialists in rotifer diversity and taxonomy. Primarily first descriptions together with the existing identification keys and reviews on the taxonomy of rotifers were used (Bartos, 1959; Donner, 1965; Kutikova, 1970; Koste, 1978; keys of the series ‚Guides to the Identificatio of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World, Rotifera). Georeferenced data were checked by placing latitudes and longitudes on a map.

Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:

  1. Microscopic animals were isolated from fresh or 37% formaldehyde-preserved samples using fine glass micropipettes in a Petri dish or plankton counting chamber. When necessary, primary samples were concentrated using filtration through 50 µm net mesh to the volume up to 50 mL before the processing.
  2. Rotifers were counted and sorted under a binocular microscope (Olympus SZ61, Olympus SZX10, NR.3 Nikon SMZ1000).
  3. Isolated single animals were identified and photographed under the microscope with the total magnification of x400 (Nikon Eclipse Ts2R, NIB-100F inverted microscope, Olympus CX43). To observe trophi (sclerotized part of the masticatory apparatus) we were dissolving soft part of the rotifer in about 5:1 drops of water:commercial bleach solution; isolated trophi was then observed under oil immersion (total magnification x1,000). A set of custom needles and whiskers was used to rotate the rotifer to observe the important traits (Taylor, 2005).
  4. Rotifer densities were equalized to 1,000 cm3 (-1L).

Referencias bibliográficas

  1. De Smet, W. H., 1996. Rotifera 4: The Proalidae (Monogononta). Guides to the Identification of the Macroinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 9. SPB Academic Publishing BV, 102 p. De Smet, 1996
  2. De Smet, W. H. & Pourriot, R., 1997. Rotifera 5: The Dicranophoridae (Monogononta) and The Ituridae (Monogononta). Guides to the Identification of the Macroinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 12. SPB Academic Publishing BV, 344 p. De Smet and Pourriot, 1997
  3. Donner J (1965) Ordnung Bdelloidea (Rotatoria, Rädertiere). Akademie Verlag, 297p. [in German] Donner, 1965
  4. Koste, W., 1978. Rotatoria. Die Rädertiere Mitteleuropas, begründet von Max Voigt. Monogononta. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart: 673 pp, 234 plates. Koste, 1978
  5. Kutikova, L. A. 1970. Kolovratki Fauny SSSR (Rotatoria). In: Fauna of the USSR, Vol. 104. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. 744 p. [In Russian] Kutikova, 1970
  6. Nogrady, T. , Pourriot, R. & Segers, H., 1995 Rotifera 3. Notommatidae and Scaridiidae. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 6. (H. J. Dumont & T. Nogrady eds). SPB Academic Publishing BV, 248 p. Nogrady et al., 1995
  7. Nogrady, T. & Segers, H., 2002 Rotifera 6: Asplanchnidae, Gastropodidae, Lindiidae, Microcodidae, Synchaetidae. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 6. (H. J. Dumont & T. Nogrady eds). SPB Academic Publishing BV, 264 p. Nogrady and Segers, 2002
  8. Segers, H., 1995. Rotifera 2: The Lecanidae (Monogononta). Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 6. (H. J. Dumont & T. Nogrady eds). SPB Academic Publishing BV, 226 pp. Segers, 1995
  9. Taylor H.L., 2005. Rotifers: Habitat to Archival Slide - Laboratory and Field Methods for Working with Rotifers and other Microinvertebrates. Taylor Laboratory (Serbin Printing, Inc.) Sarasota, FL. Taylor, 2005
  10. R. L. Wallace, T. W. Snell, C. Ricci, and T. Nogrady: Rotifera: Volume 1—Biology, Ecology and Systematics (2nd edn): Backhuys Publishers, 2006, 299 pp, Paperback, €76.00, ISBN 90-5782-178-8. J Paleolimnol 47, 159–159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-011-9539-4 Wallace et al., 2006
  11. Bartoš E, 1959. Viřnici - Rotatoria, Fauna ČSR. ČSAV, Prague, 603p. Bartos, 1959

Metadatos adicionales

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