Pleuroxus wittsteini Studer, 1878

Pugh, P. J. A., Dartnall, H. J. G. & McInnes, S. J., 2002, The non-marine Crustacea of Antarctica and the Islands of the Southern Ocean: biodiversity and biogeography, Journal of Natural History 36 (9), pp. 1047-1103 : 1054-1055

Pleuroxus wittsteini Studer, 1878

as Pleuroxus Wittsteini in Studer (1878); Pleuroxus scopuliferus Ekman, 1900 ; Pleuroxus scopulifer Daday de Dées, 1903 ; Pleuroxus aduncus Jurine, 1820 wittsteini Studer ( sensu

Lofthouse, 1967); Pleuroxus aduncus aduncus (Jurine, 1820) Smirnov, 1971 ( sensu Frey,

1993b).

Descriptions: Studer (1878); Daday de Dées (1902); Frey (1993b); Smirnov (1996). Listed in: Brehm (1940); Lindberg (1953); § Lofthouse (1967); † Smith and Sayers (1971); Kok (1977); Gay (1981a, 1981b, 1982); Duchêne (1989); Frey (1993a); Vekhov (1993).

Recorded from: freshwater lakes and/or pools.

Locations: ‘Antarctica’ †, Prince Edward Is., Îles Kerguelen, Heard I., Macquarie I. §, [S. America—Tierra del Fuego].

Note. § Macquarie record ( Lofthouse, 1967; Duchêne, 1989) probably refers to P. macquariensis ( Frey, 1993b) ; † ‘Antarctica’ record sensu Smith and Sayers (1971) is not substantiated.

Family DAPHNIIDAE Straus, 1820