Eulimnadia braueriana, Ishikawa, 1895

Rogers, D. Christopher, 2020, Spinicaudata Catalogus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)., Zoological Studies 59 (45), pp. 1-44 : 7

Eulimnadia braueriana Ishikawa, 1895

= Limnadia braueriana ( Ishikawa, 1895)

= Eulimnadia packardiana Ishikawa, 1895 (fide Rabet 2010)

= Limnadia packardiana ( Ishikawa, 1895) (fide Rabet 2010)

= Eulimnadia taoluoensis Hu, 1986a

= Limnadia taoluoensis ( Hu, 1986a)

Comments: Eastern China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan (Hu 1986; Olesen and Grygier 2003; Shen and Huang 2008; Kwon et al. 2010; Rabet 2010; Wang 2014). The type locality for E. braueriana is Kugenuma in modern Kanagawa Province, Japan, and the type locality for E. packardiana is Nikkô in Tochigi Province, Japan. Hu described E. taoluoensis in his 1986a paper, but also presented it as new in his 1986b paper. Naganawa and Orgilijanova (2000) treated E. taoluoensis as a junior synonym of E. braueriana , but provided no explanation. Comparison of the eggs for the two taxa ( Shen and Huang 2008: 354, fig. 1D and; Wang et al. 2014: 414, fig. 2B) demonstrate that they are probably synonyms. However, Shen and Huang’s (2008) SEM of the egg from the vicinity (?) of the type locality, depicts eggs that are covered in debris, and were possibly air dried alcoholic specimens ( Rogers and Padhye 2015). They appear to be lacking “inflated rims” ( Rabet 2010), but this could be an artefact of maturity or preservation and drying. This species needs to be compared with E. indocylindrova and E. bondi .