Laevicaudata Linder, 1945

Padhye, Sameer, Rabet, Nicolas & Ghate, Hemant, 2015, First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments, Zootaxa 3904 (2), pp. 208-222 : 212

Order Laevicaudata Linder, 1945

Family Lynceidae Baird, 1845 . A species belonging to Lynceidae was reported from outskirts of Pune city, Maharashtra for the first time by Padhye et al. (2011b) but the authors could not confirm the species status. We now confirm this species to be Lynceus alleppeyensis Balaraman & Nayar 2004 which has been described earlier from South India (Kerala) ( Balaraman & Nayar 2004) thus extending its range by nearly 1000 km northwards ( Fig. 2 ). Characteristic traits such as the female and male rostrum, telson morphology and male claspers match with the original description ( Fig.3 : A–D).

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FIGURE 2. Map showing the distribution of Lynceus alleppeyensis in India. (Red square represents the type locality of this species; red circles represent the new habitats in Maharashtra).

FIGURE 3. Lynceus alleppeyensis. A, Female head. B, Male head. C, Telson. D, Male clasper. (Scale bars: A, B, D 0.1 mm; C 0.05 mm).