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Slightly alkaline and strongly alkaline lakes were investigated. A rather varied rotifer fauna was found in the first category, while in the second group, no rotifers at all or, at the most, only one species was found.
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Pejler, B. On the rotifer plankton of some East African lakes. Hydrobiologia 44, 389–396 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00036305
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