Pseudochydorus globosus ( Baird, 1843 )

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 : 60-61

(130) Pseudochydorus globosus ( Baird, 1843) s.lat.

Indian records. Assam—Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008b); Goa— Rane (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Raina & Vass (1993); Maharashtra — Rane (2002, 2005, 2006); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya — Patil (1976), Biswas (1980), Michael & Sharma (1988); Sharma B.K. & Sharma S.(1999, 2011), Sharma S. (2010b); Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2008); Tamil Nadu —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); West Bengal — Gurney (1907), Venkataraman & Nandi (1997), Venkataraman (1998c), Sinha & Khan (2000), Khan (2003); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from United Kingdom ( Baird 1843) and recently redescribed by Van Damme & Dumont (2007) based on European material. Non-European populations need to be revised and contain cryptic species ( Van Damme & Dumont 2007).

Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003) represented both Pseudochydorus globosus (Baird) and Chydorus globosus Baird, 1843 wrongly in their list, as two separate taxa.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan ( Smirnov 1996), but this is likely a species group ( Van Damme & Dumont 2007). Present in the Oriental zone (Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010).

Order Onychopoda Sars, 1865