Hyalella, Graening & Rogers & Holsinger & Barr & Bottorff, 2012

Graening, G. O., Rogers, D. Christopher, Holsinger, John R., Barr, Cheryl & Bottorff, Richard, 2012, Checklist of Inland Aquatic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) of California, Zootaxa 3544, pp. 1-27 : 20

Hyalella sp. nov.

Records: Inyo Co. “HaPS9” in Warm Springs Canyon; “HaPS10” in Grapevine Spring; “HaPS13” in Saline Valley Marsh; “HaPS22” in Spring 94, Spring 97, Antelope Spring; “HaPS23” in Surprise Spring and Lower Vine Ranch Spring; “HaPS29” in Mule Spring; “HaPS30” in Warm Spring; “HaPS31” in Tuttle Cr., Owens R., and Lubkin Cr. Mono Co. “HaPS12” in BLM Spring; “HaPS24” in Fish Slough; “HaPS28” in Big Spring; “HaPS29” in Spring 103. San Bernardino Co. “HaPS13” in Cedar Springs, site on Mojave R., Big Morongo Spring, and Afton Canyon Spring.

Comments: At least 33 provisional species of Hyalella are present in the southern Great Basin ecoregion of California and Nevada; listed here are the haplotypes as distinguished by Witt et al. (2006). Witt et al. (2006) also reports a new species of Hyalella (“HaPS13”) on Catalina Island, Los Angeles Co.