Scapholeberis kingi Sars, 1903

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 : 20-21

(34) Scapholeberis kingi Sars, 1903

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (1992d, 2000a); Andhra Pradesh — Venkataraman (1992), Chandrasekhar (2004a, 2006); Assam — Patil (1976), Biswas (1980), Sharma B.K. et al. (2000), Sharma S. (2008b), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a,b); Bihar —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Goa— Rane (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm (1936), Akthar (1972), Balkhi (1987), Dar et al. (2002); Jharkhand — Venkataraman & Nandi (1997); Karnataka — Raghunathan (1988); Kerala — Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007); Madhya Pradesh — Unni (1996); Maharsahtra— Rane (2002, 2004, 2005a, b, 2006); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya — Patil (1976), Hatter et al. (2004), Sharma S (2010a, b), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Mizoram — Pachuau (2008), Orissa — Dumont & Pensaert (1983); Punjab—Battish, (1983); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971), Rajasthan —Sharma R et al. (2011), Sharma V. et al. (2012);; Tamil Nadu — Venkataraman (1999b), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); West Bengal — Gurney (1906, 1907), Michael (1968), Sharma B.K. (1978), Dumont & Pensaert (1983), Venkataraman (1998c), Sinha & Khan (2000), Venkataraman et al. (2000), Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002), 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 Indonesia ( Sars 1903b), very common in India (Michael & Sharma B.K. 1988). Indian specimens were subject of life cycle studies (Murugan 1976; Murugan & Sivaramakrishnan, 1976) and ephippium ( Murugan & Ramaseshan 1978) studies.

Distribution. Australia ( Dumont & Pensaert 1983), whole Africa ( Sars 1916; Smirnov 2008; Dumont & Pensaert 1983), tropics and subtropics of Asia up to Amur basin in the north (Kotov et al. 2011) and Mediterranean Europe ( Dumont & Pensaert 1983). In Neotropics, the name S. freyi is used for S. kingi -like populations (e.g., Van Damme & Dumont 2010).