Marine midge telmatogeton japonicus tokunaga (Diptera: Chironomidae) exploiting brackish water in Finland

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 405-408

  Raunio, Janne ^a   Paasivirta, Lauri ^b   Brodin, Yngve ^c  

^a Water and Environment Association of the River Kymi   (Finland)

^b Swedish Museum of Natural History ^*  (Finland)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Gulf of Finland; Pupal exuviae; Telmatogeton japonicus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960054696     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2009.4.2.20     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Ashan M (1990) Changes in softbottom macrofauna communities along environmental gradients. Annales Zoologici Fennici 27: 329-336
2. Brodin Y, Andersson MH (2008) The marine splash midge Telmatogeton japonicus (Diptera; Chironomidae)-extreme and alien? Biological Invasions 11: 1311-1317 doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9338-7
3. Cranston PS (1989) The adult males of Telmatogetoninae (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the Holarctic region-keys and diagnosis. In: Wiederholm T (ed), Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Keys and diagnostics. Vol. 3. Male imagines. Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 34, pp 17-21
4. Laine AO (2003) Distribution of soft-bottom macrofauna in the deep open Baltic Sea in relation to environmental variability. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 57: 87-97 doi:10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00333-5
5. Langton PH, Visser H (2003) Chironomidae Exuviae. A key to pupal exuviae of the West Palaearctic Region. ETI University of Amsterdam World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM series
6. Lee CE (1999) Rapid and repeated invasions of fresh water by the copepod Eurytemora affinis. Evolution 53: 1423-1434 doi:10.2307/2640889
7. Newman LJ (1988) Evolutionary relationships of the Hawaiian and North American Telmatogeton (Insecta; Diptera: Chironomidae). Pacific Science 42: 56-64
8. Paasivirta L (2000) Chironomiae (Diptera) of the northern Baltic Sea. In: Hoffrichter O (ed) (2000) Late 20th century research on Chironomidae: an anthology from the 13th international symposium on Chironomidae. Freiburg, Germany, September 5-9, 1997. Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, pp 589-598
9. Raunio J (2008) The use of Chironomid Pupal Exuvial Technique (CPET) in freshwater biomonitoring: applications for boreal rivers and lakes. Oulu University, Oulu, Finland, 42 pp
10. Robles C (1984) Coincidence of agonistic larval behaviour, uniform dispersion, and unusual pupal morphology in a genus of marine midges (Diptera: Chironomidae). Journal of Natural History 18: 897-904 doi:10.1080/ 00222938400770781
11. Tokunaga M (1933) Chironomidae from Japan (Diptera) I. Clunioninae. Philippine Journal of Science 51: 87-99
12. Wilson RS, Ruse LP (2005) A guide to the identification of genera of chironomid pupal exuviae occurring in Britain and Ireland (including common genera from northern Europe) and their use in monitoring lotic and lentic fresh waters. Freshwater Biological Association, Special Publication No 13, 176 pp