Moina brachiata ( Jurine, 1820 )

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 : 24

(45) Moina brachiata ( Jurine, 1820)

Indian records. Andhra Pradesh — Siddiqi & Chandrasekhar (1993), Chandrasekhar & Kodarkar (1994, 1997), Chandrasekhar (1994, 1995, 2004a), Malathi et al. (1998), Thirupathaiah et al. (2011); Assam — Kalita et al. (2011); Bihar — Bilgrami (1991a), Singh (2008), Kumar et al. (2011); Delhi — Michael (1966a); Goa— Rane (2008); Karnataka — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2007), Kiran et al. (2007); Kerala — Balaraman (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm (1936), Ahangar et al. (2012a, b); Madhya Pradesh — Saksena (1986), Mishra (2005); Kerala — Balaraman (2008); Maharashtra — Pawar et al. (2003), Rane (2005b), Pawar & Pulle (2005), Jayabhaye & Madlapure (2006), Deshpande et al. (2007), Kamble et al. (2007), Kedar et al. (2008), Patil S.S. et al. (2008), Patil G.P et al. (2008), Waghmare & Lokhande (2009), Jayabhaye (2010), Shinde et al. (2012); Meghalaya — Patil (1976, 1983); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971), Nayar (1971); Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2012); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009), Kudari et al. (2005), Kanagasabapathi & Rajan (2010), Prabhakar et al. (2012); Uttarakhand —Kumar et al. (2012); West Bengal — Michael (1966b, 1968); Bilgrami (1991a, b), Venkataraman & Das (2001), Chandrasekhar (1998a, 2004b); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Switzerland ( Jurine 1820).

Distribution. Widely distributed in Eurasia ( Smirnov 1976).

Moina dodhui Rane, 1987

Type locality. “Madan Mahal ditch near Premnager, about 4 km west of Jabalpur on the Nagpur Road”, Jabalpur district , Madhya Pradesh, India ( Rane 1987) .

Indian record: Madhya Pradesh — Rane (1987).

Remarks. Moina dodhui is a junior synonym of M. micrura (see Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. 1990).