Bosmina Baird, 1845

Elías-Gutiérrez, Manuel, Jerónimo, Fernando Martínez, Ivanova, Natalia V., Valdez-Moreno, Martha & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2008, DNA barcodes for Cladocera and Copepoda from Mexico and Guatemala, highlights and new discoveries, Zootaxa 1839 (1), pp. 1-42 : 11

Genus Bosmina Baird, 1845

The taxonomic status of the genus Bosmina remains unsettled. De Melo & Hebert (1994) and Taylor et al. (2002) studied populations of this genus in the northern half of the American continent using both molecular and morphological approaches, but populations in the south have only seen morphological analysis ( Paggi 1979). The genus was represented in this study by three species, but Bosmina tubicen Brehm was only recorded from Lake Peten. Bosmina huaronensis Delachaux was widespread from the Central Plateau to the north, while B. longirostris (O.F. Müller) was restricted to one locality on the Central plateau.