Rotifers. Rotifera Monogononta

• Druk: 2016
• Redakcja naukowa: Irena Bielańska-Grajner, Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Stanisław Radwan
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

The editorial series Freshwater Fauna of Poland has existed since 1935. Up to now 22 volumes (in Polish) have been published, treating both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Particular volumes contain rich general data concerning described taxa and detailed information on species, genera, families and orders. Integral parts of all volumes are identification keys. Thanks to such a way of presentation, monographs of particular faunistic groups are true compendia of the up-to-date state of theoretical and practical knowledge of these animals. The volumes of the series are authored by eminent specialists of the Polish fauna.
The present volume, by Professor Irena Bielańska­Grajner (University of Silesia, Katowice), Professor Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin (University of Białystok and Hydrobiological Station of Polish Academy of Sciences, Mikołajki) and late Professor Stanisław Radwan (University of Life Sciences, Lublin), concerns rotifers (Rotifera) from the order Monogononta. The general part includes such topics as the origin of rotifers, taxonomy and systematics, morphology, anatomy, biology, ecology, zoogeography, and methods of sample collection, preservation, storage, and processing. The systematic part comprises the keys to orders, families and genera, and survey of species, based on illustrations including many original micrographs in colour. In total, over 460 rotifer species found in Poland are presented and characterized, as well as over 140 species which have not yet been recorded from Poland but are known to occur in the neighbouring countries, so may be encountered in Poland in future.
This book will be useful not only for those who specialise in rotifer research, but also for other such as zoologists and hydrobiologists, biology students, university teachers and specialists of water quality management and protection practice.

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• Redakcja: Irena Bielańska-Grajner, Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Stanisław Radwan
• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-7969-957-5
• ISBN druku: 978-83-7969-665-9
• Liczba stron: 582

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Acknowledgements	7

I. Introduction	9

II. History of research on Polish rotifers and the present state of their knowledge	11

III. General Part 	17
1. General characteristics of rotifers 	17
2. The origin of rotifers 	17
3. Taxonomy and systematics	19
4. Morphology and anatomy of rotifer females 	27
External appearance and body cover 	27
Head 	30
Foot 	34
Alimentary tract and mouth parts (trophi)	34
Muscle system	38
Nervous system and sense organs	38
Excretory and reproductive systems	42
Morphology and anatomy of rotifer males 	42
5. Biology	44
Locomotion	44
Feeding	46
Respiration	48
Reproduction and development	48
Dormant eggs 	51
Heterogony	53
Anhydrobiosis	56
6. Ecology 	57
Rotifer habitats and environmental conditions 	57
Environmental factors	59
Morphological variability and cyclomorphosis 	60
Sessile and colony-forming rotifers 	63
Interactions between rotifers and other organisms 	63
Predation and parasitism	65
7. Importance of rotifers for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems 		66
8. Geographic distribution 	69
9. Methods of sample collection, preservation, storage, and processing and techniques of rotifer culture	70
Sampling	70
Fixation and preservation	71
Live materials	72
Examination of trophi	72
Laboratory culture	73
Quantitative analysis	74
Biomass assessment 	75

IV. Systematic part: a key for the identification of monogonont rotifers of Poland	79

V. Alphabetical survey of species	123

VI. A survey of species not yet recorded in Poland but reported from neighbouring countries 	435

VII. References	505

VIII. Index of scientific names 	535

IX. List of synonyms used in the Polish literature 	557

X. Annex 	567

XI. Autors	579