FIRST RECORD OF SOME AQUATIC FAUNA COLLECTED FROM QATARI INLAND WATERS WITH REFERENCE TO ARABIAN PENINSULA

Abstract

One of the man-made wetland fauna from September 2010 up to June 2013 during random intervals. The investigations have revealed 24 species of macroinvertebrates: one Rotifer, 3 gastropods, one Notostracan, 2 Ostracods, 2 Copepods, one Cladoceran, one Odonatan, 2 Hemip, Gastropods, Ostracods, Copepods and the Odonatan, all the remaining taxa are recorded for the firsttime in Qatar. Surprisingly, these man-made wetlands numbers of aquatic organisms in such arid desert