Sididae Baird, 1850

Ghaouaci, Souad, Amarouayache, Mounia, Sinev, Artem Y., Korovchinsky, Nikolai M. & Kotov, Alexey A., 2018, An annotated checklist of the Algerian Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda), Zootaxa 4377 (3), pp. 412-430 : 415

Family Sididae Baird, 1850

1. Diaphanosoma brachyurum (Liévin, 1848), recorded by Blanchard (1891), Blanchard & Richard (1890, 1891), Gauthier (1928a, 1931), Beadle (1943), Samraoui et al. (1998) and Samraoui (2002). In the course of the present study this species was found in site 42 only. This species is regarded as Palearctic ( Korovchinsky 1992), but similar forms have been reported from the Nearctic and Neotropical regions, forming a complex of cryptic species ( Korovchinsky 2004; Kotov et al. 2013b). It is quite probable that in previous studies in Algeria other species were reported under this name; but further works are needed to study adequately the genus diversity in Algeria.

2. Diaphanosoma mongolianum Uéno, 1938*, recorded by Korovchinsky (2004) in Keddara Dam, Boughzoul Dam, and guelta Efenni (rockpool in Sahara). This species is distributed in Afrotropical and Palearctic regions ( Kotov et al. 2013a).