Biodiversity of Calanoida Copepoda in Different Habitats of the North-Western Red Sea (Hurghada Shelf)

Water

Mahmoud M. Maaty¹  Mohamed Ashour²  Abed Alataway³  Ahmed El-Shafei³  Hamdy Abo-Taleb⁴ 

[1] Hydrobiology Lab., Marine Environment Division, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Hurghada Branch 84712, Egypt;Invertebrate Aquaculture Lab., National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Alexandria Branch 21556, Egypt;Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Chair, Prince Sultan Institute for Environmental, Water and Desert Research, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Nasr city 11823, Egypt;

关键词: calanoida;    copepoda;    biodiversity;    red sea;    coral reef;    seagrass;    habitats;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w12030656

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Little is known about the diversity of Calanoida, Copepoda, in different habitats of the north-western Red Sea. In this study, biodiversity of Calanoida, Copepoda, during the cold and warm seasons of 2017, were observed at 12 stations belonging to four different habitats (coral reef (CR), sheltered shallow lagoons (SSL), seagrass (SG), and open deep-water (ODW) habitats) in the Hurghada shelf, north-western Red Sea. SSL habitats were the most affected by environmental conditions, especially temperature, salinity, and depth. Some calanoid species were restricted to certain habitats, others were adapted to live in more than one habitat, while some species showed a wide distribution in all habitats. ODW habitats showed maximum diversity and density of the calanoid species. The effects of temperature and salinity were distinct in the SG and SSL. The results clearly showed that different Red Sea habitats affected the biodiversity of calanoid copepods.

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