Table 3.

Relative abundance of zooplankton groups and genera

Group	Genus	No. of times organism identifieda
		Bakerganj					Mathbaria					Total
		GR1	GR2	GR3	GR4	Subtotal	GR1	GR2	GR3	GR4	Subtotal
Nauplii	Metanauplius	111	177	25	2	315	132	286	35	5	1,461	458
Rotifers	Brachionus	200	61	23	28	312	348	75	21	9	1,668	453
Nauplii	Nauplius	108	154	18	2	282	124	241	32	7	1,290	404
Copepods	Cyclops	11	60	156	46	273	9	47	189	42	597	287
Copepods	Diaptomus	8	51	116	38	213	8	66	178	31	617	283
Rotifers	Polyarthra	99	31	9	5	144	170	41	14	5	836	230
Cladocera	Diaphanosoma	8	11	46	66	131	4	15	47	64	219	130
Cladocera	Moina	6	8	28	56	98	2	6	20	53	119	81
Rotifers	Keratella	25	12	12	4	53	62	20	4	0	316	86
Protozoa	Difflugia	3	7	15	30	55	4	10	27	44	144	85
Rotifers	Filinia	32	14	7	5	58	53	12	4	1	257	70
Rotifers	Trichocerca	23	6	1	2	32	57	11	7	1	276	76
Rotifers	Asplanchna	23	5	1	4	33	8	9	3	0	65	20
Rotifers	Horaella	4	4	2	2	12	9	6	2	0	58	17
Copepods	Mesocyclops	2	5	12	6	25	0	5	10	3	38	18
Protozoa	Glaucoma	0	4	13	6	23	0	2	7	1	21	10

^aThe GR no. corresponds to the categorical group of abundance from GR1, the most abundant, through GR4, the least abundant. Values in the GR columns correspond to the number of times the organism was identified as that categorical group of abundance. Only the top 16 groups are shown.