Wittmann, Ariani & Daneliya 2016
Wittmann, Ariani & Daneliya 2016
WITTMANN, K.J., A.P. ARIANI & M. DANELIYA, 2016. The Mysidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Mysida) in fresh and oligohaline waters of the Mediterranean. Taxonomy, biogeography, and bioinvasion. Zootaxa, 4142 (1): 1-70.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4142.1.1
Among a total of nine species of Mysidae so far found in fresh waters of the Mediterranean, four are stenoendemics, namely of a single lake (Diamysis lacustris), of a single stream and its springs (Diamysis hebraica), waters of a single river basin (Paramysis kosswigi) or of karstic cave waters (Troglomysis vjetrenicensis), respectively. Not less than four species, T. vjetrenicensis, D. lacustris, D. fluviatilis, and P. adriatica nov. sp., are confined to freshwater tributaries of the Adriatic Sea (NE-Mediterranean). This strengthens previous findings about the outstanding role of the Adriatic basin for the endemic diversity of freshwater Mysidae within the Mediterranean; possibly related to alternating marine and freshwater-terrestrial phases during Pliocene-Pleistocene in this semi-enclosed basin. As far as known, freshwater populations of D. mesohalobia heterandra are also confined to the Adriatic basin; however this taxon shows many more populations in brackish waters of the E-Mediterranean and Marmora basins. The remaining two freshwater species (Limnomysis benedeni, Hemimysis anomala) are wide-range invaders of Ponto-Caspian origin, with recent expansion to fresh and brackish waters of the NW-Mediterranean. Two additional species, Neomysis integer and Mesopodopsis slabberi, are known from a few fresh waters and many more brackish and marine waters of the NE-Atlantic or Black Sea basins, respectively; in the Mediterranean, however, so far only from saline waters down to almost fresh water (S >= 0.9). A well figured key to the species is given, including certain potential future invaders.
faunistics; new species; new tribe; fresh-water; biogeography; Adriatic basin; Mediterranean; neozoa
Diamysis fluviatilis; Diamysis hebraica; Diamysis lacustris; Diamysis mesohalobia heterandra; Hemimysis anomala; Limnomysis benedeni; Mesopodopsis slabberi; Neomysis integer; Paramysini new tribe; Paramysis (Longidentia) adriatica; Paramysis adriatica n. sp.; Troglomysis vjetrenicensis