Cladocera of Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Author:
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Ueno, Masuzo, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,
- Title:
- Cladocera of Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Periodical:
- Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
- Year:
- 1936
- Volume:
- 12
- Pages:
- 9 p.
- Subject:
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Cladocera
Lake Waiau
Mauna Kea
Scientific expeditions Mauna Kea
- Summary:
- Small, transparent Crustaceans, having the body covered by a bivalve shell, from which the head and antennae extend, were found abundantly in the water of Lake Waiau, Mauna Kea, at 13,007 feet. The Cladocera discussed in this paper were collected by members of the staff of Bernice P. Bishop Museum on the Mauna Kea Expedition of the Hawaiian Academy of Science in August 1935. The collection includes specimens from Lake Waiau and a pond on the slope of Mauna Kea, altitude 6,500 feet. Of the four species included in the report, three had not been recorded previously from the island of Hawaii. The specimens were very similar to, and believed to belong to the same species as Simocephalus campensis, found in South Africa, family Daphniidae. Another Cladocera, of the same family, Ceriodaphnia dubia, collected from a small pond on the slope of Mauna Kea, is known from New Zealand, Australia, Africa, Sumatra and Patagonia. Specimens of a species, Macrothrix chevreuxi, belonging to another family, Macrothrixidae, from a pond on the slope of Mauna Kea, is known from Kenya, Africa, and also from South America. Also found in Lake Waiau, Alona cambouei (family Chyroridae) is known from Tongling, Palestine, Madagascar, Africa and South America, having been collected from Lake Huaron, in the Peruvian Andes, altitude 16,864 feet.
- URL:
- http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op12-11.pdf
- Collection:
- Monographs