Table 5.
Level of macroinvertebrates | Abundance | Scorea | |||
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Class | Order | Family | Pistia stratiotes | Eichhornia crassipes | |
Malacostraca | Decapoda | Atydae | 198 | 71 | 8 |
Insecta | Odonata | Libellulidae | 31 | 17 | 5 |
Perilestidae | 93 | 44 | 5 | ||
Coleoptera | Dyticidae | 19 | 45 | 5 | |
Hydrophilidae | 97 | 85 | 4 | ||
Elmidae | 19 | 53 | 4 | ||
Diptera | Chironomidae | 6 | 22 | 2 | |
Gastropoda | Mesogastropoda | Ampularidae | 1 | 36 | 3 |
Neotaenioglossa | Thiaridae | 823 | 1550 | 3 | |
Basommatophora | Planorbidae | 207 | 256 | 3 | |
Abundance | 2179 | 1494 |
aBMWP and adaptations