Darwinula stevensoni ( Brady & Robertson, 1870 )

Sabater, Lara Milena, Monferran, Mateo Daniel, Higuti, Janet & Pérez, Alejandra Patricia, 2023, An annotated checklist of recent non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, South America, Zootaxa 5336 (2), pp. 151-178 : 156

1- Darwinula stevensoni ( Brady & Robertson, 1870)

Global distribution: AT, AU, NA, NT, OL, PA.

Argentinian distribution: Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chubut, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz.

Ecology: The species was found in freshwater environments, such as springs and slow-flowing creeks with muddy sediment. It was recorded from a wide altitude range (179–4026 m a.s.l.), with temperature ranging between 15 and 28ºC, in alkaline waters (pH: 8.1–8.3) with electrical conductivity ranging from 204 to 1026 μS/cm, showing that this species can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, as was demonstrated by Van Doninck et al. (2003).

Cited by: Moguilevsky & Whatley (1995); Laprida (2006); Laprida et al. (2006); Ramón Mercau et al. (2012); Coviaga et al. (2018b); D’Ambrosio et al. (2017).