Day: 18 January 2021

New copepod species in Romania

Karina Battes, Mirela Cîmpean  A new calanoid copepod species for Romanian fauna was identified in aquatic invertebrate samples collected from Natura 2000 site ROSCI0310 Lacurile Fălticeni in 2018-2019: Sinodiaptomus sarsi (Rylov, 1923). This species, native to Eastern Asia, expanded its range from Eastern China and South-Eastern Russia, reaching Turkey and the Caucasus. The first citation in Europe (West from the Black Sea) was made in…