Kauaʻi record · KCA-CR-000022
Bosmina meridionalis
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About Bosmina meridionalis
Bosmina meridionalis is a branchiopod crustacean in the family Bosminidae. Its current scientific name is cited as Bosmina meridionalis Sars, 1904. Published Kauaʻi evidence documents the species from Kauaʻi. The cited evidence includes records dated or referenced to 1937. Evidence types include historical freshwater record. These records establish a documented Kauaʻi occurrence but are not automatically interpreted as a present-day abundance estimate. The documented Kauaʻi habitat context includes freshwater. For current-status context, historical Kauaʻi record; current persistence not reassessed. The available Kauaʻi evidence does not support adding island-specific claims about diet, reproduction, behavior, population size, or trend unless those points are stated in the cited sources, so they are not inferred here. Keeping the accepted taxonomic concept together with the dated occurrence evidence allows later surveys to distinguish historical documentation from contemporary status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Bosmina meridionalis
- Other names
- Bosmina meridionalis · crustacean · crustaceans
- Family
- Bosminidae
- Order
- Diplostraca
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- confirmed by published Kauaʻi occurrence evidence
- Origin
- Origin not yet resolved
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Bosmina meridionalis (Bosmina meridionalis) is a confirmed Kauaʻi crustacean species documented from Kauaʻi. The occurrence is retained with its source date and status so historical evidence is not presented as a current population estimate.