Ephemeroporus cf. barroisi (Richard, 1894)

Kotov, Alexey A., Jeong, Hyun Gi & Lee, Wonchoel, 2012, Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of the south-east of the Korean Peninsula, with twenty new records for Korea *, Zootaxa 3368, pp. 50-90 : 75

14. Ephemeroporus cf. barroisi (Richard, 1894)

Locality in Korea. 6a (see Fig. 1 and Table 1 ).

Notes. A single female from Bak Sil Ji was undistinguishable from one earlier found in the Amur basin ( Kotov et al. 2011b), most probably the northernmost limit of its distribution. Similar forms are present in China ( Chiang & Du 1979). Frey (1982b) regarded E. barroisi as nomen dubium , but Smirnov (1996) redescribed this species and concluded that it is widely distributed in the tropics of thr Old World. Both females from the Amur basin and Korea are similar with those described by Alonso (1987) as E. sp. from Iran, which is, most probably, E. barroisi s.str. A recent attempt of redescription of the latter ( Yalim & Ciplak 2010) was not very successful, and the taxon needs to be re-investigated in more detail. This is the first record of the genus Ephemeroporus Frey, 1982 for Korea.