Grimaldina brazzai Richard, 1892

CHATTERJEE, TAPAS, KOTOV, ALEXEY A., DAMME, KAY VAN, CHANDRASEKHAR, S. V. A. & PADHYE, SAMEER, 2013, An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India, Zootaxa 3667 (1), pp. 1-89 : 30-31

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Indian records. Assam —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a, b); Madhya Pradesh — Rane (1984c); Rajasthan — Venkataraman (1990b); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); West Bengal — Venkataraman & Das (1993), Venkataraman (1998c), Venkataraman et al. (2000); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid taxon described from Gabon, West Africa ( Richard 1892). It probably consists of a series of cryptic species (H. J. Dumont, pers. comm.). Venkataraman (1998) recorded this species from West Bengal and claim that it is the first report from India, later Venkataraman & Das (1993) again said they had found the first record, although Rane (1984c) already found this taxon before.

Distribution. At the time, regarded as circumtropical ( Smirnov 1992; Kotov & Ferrari 2010).

Guernella ceylonica Daday, 1898

Indian records. General record— Brehm (1953), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Described from Sri Lanka ( Daday 1898). Junior synonym of G. raphaelis Richard, 1892 ( Smirnov 1976, 1992), also listed as such in Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988). However, G. raphaelis is described from West Africa, and ceylonica is an available name for Oriental populations if these would indeed prove to belong to a separate species.

Guernella odiosa ( Gurney, 1916)

Indian records. General record— Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Raghunathan and Kumar (2003) listed this combination as apparent mistake. In reality, this combination was never proposed by any other author in cladoceran taxonomy. Sometimes Macrothrix odiosa was placed to the genus Gurneyella Brehm, 1930 (see Biswas 1971), not Guernella Richard, 1892 . If Guernella is a valid taxon, which is indeed very different from Macrothrix ( Smirnov 1976, 1992), Gurneyella is an apparent junior synonym of Macrothrix ( Kotov et al. 2005) . See Macrothrix odiosa for further comments.

References

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Brehm, V. (1953) Indische Diaptomiden, pseudodiaptoniden und Cladoceren. Osterreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift, Vienna, 4, 241 - 345.

Daday, E. von. (1898) Mikroskopische Susswasserthiere aus Ceylon. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek, 21, 1 - 123.

Fernando, C. H. & Kanduru, A. (1984) Some remarks on the latitudinal distribution of Cladocera on the Indian subcontinent. Hydrobiologia, 113, 69 - 76. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00026593

Gurney, R. (1916) On some fresh - water Entomostraca from Ceylon. Proceedings of General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1, 333 - 343. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1916. tb 02016. x

Kotov, A. A., Maiphae, S. & Sanoamuang, L. (2005) Revision of Macrothrix paulensis - like species (Anomopoda, Cladocera, Branchiopoda) in Asia, and phylogeny of the paulensis - group. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Supplement, 151 (Monographic Studies), 269 - 299.

Kotov, A. A. & Ferrari, F. D. (2010) The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U. S. A. Zootaxa, 2551, 37 - 64.

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Rane, P. D. (1984 c) New records of Grimaldina brazzai Richard and Bosminopsis deitersi Richard from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 81, 713 - 714.

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Smirnov, N. N. (1992) The Macrothricidae of the world. Guides to the identification of the microivertebrates of the Continental Waters of the world, Vol. 1. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, 143 pp.

Venkataraman, K. (1990 b) New records of Cladocera of Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur - 3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 87, 166 - 168.

Venkataraman, K. & Das, S. R. (1993) Freshwater Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of southern West Bengal. Journal of Andaman Science Association, 9 (1 / 2), 19 - 24.

Venkataraman, K. & Das, S. R. (2000) Cladocera. Zoological Survey of India Publication, State Fauna Series, 7, 277 - 316.