Darwinula stevensoni ( Brady and Robertson, 1870 )

Smith, Robin J., 2011, Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus, Zootaxa 3140, pp. 15-37 : 34

Darwinula stevensoni ( Brady and Robertson, 1870)

For synonym list see Rossetti & Martens 1998.

Material examined. Two females from a seep at the edge of a track in Hino-cho, Shiga Prefecture, N35º 00’ 02.1”, E136º 19’ 32.2”, 16 April 2008. All material collected by the author.

Remarks. This cosmopolitan species has previously been reported from Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture ( Okubo 2001; Smith and Kamiya 2008; Smith and Janz 2009). Elsewhere in Japan it has been reported from the runoff of springs on Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture (Smith and Kamiya 2006).