Chydorus pubescens Sars, 1901

CHATTERJEE, TAPAS, KOTOV, ALEXEY A., DAMME, KAY VAN, CHANDRASEKHAR, S. V. A. & PADHYE, SAMEER, 2013, An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India, Zootaxa 3667 (1), pp. 1-89 : 55

(113) Chydorus pubescens Sars, 1901 s.lat.

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (2000a); Assam —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a, b); Bihar — Venkataraman & Nandi (1997), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Meghalaya —Sharma S. (2010a); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); West Bengal —Venkataraman (1998c), Venkataraman et al. (2000); General record—Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Brazil and Argentina ( Sars 1901).

Distribution. Circumtropical ( Smirnov 1996). Common in the Oriental zone ( Idris 1983; Maiphae et al. 2005; Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010), yet Oriental populations need to be revised.