Macrothrix cf. oviformis Ekman, 1900

Kotov, Alexey A., Sinev, Artem Y. & Berrios, Viviana Lorena, 2010, The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism 2430, Zootaxa 2430 (1), pp. 1-66 : 24

Macrothrix cf. oviformis Ekman, 1900

? Macrothrix oviformis Ekman, 1900, p. 71 –73, Pl. 4, figs 17–19.

Material examined here. Seven females from locality 3.

Comments. Type locality of M. oviformis is “... einer Lagune in der Nähe von Rio Turbio’ ’ ( Ekman 1900) in Santa Cruz, Argentina . Type material is, most probably, lost, at least, absent from Ekman’s Collection in SMNH ( Kotov & Gololobova 2005).

We did not find any differences of our Andean population from locality 3 from those of M. oviformis described from southernmost portion of South America ( Kotov 2007b). But this conclusion must be checked basing on better material from several localities.

Distribution. According to present-day data, M. oviformis seems to be distributed both in Patagonia and the Andes .