Bosminidae

Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2015, Cladocera of Hainan Island, China, Zootaxa 4006 (3), pp. 569-585 : 576

Family Bosminidae

Bosmina (Sinobosmina) fatalis Burckhardt, 1924 . Found once in Muse Lake reservoir (loc. 12) in winter. Planktonic species. For description see Tanaka (2000), for description of male see Kotov et al. (2009). East Asian species distributed from Primorskii Area of Russia and Korea to Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. For list of records in China see Xiang et al. (2015).

Bosmina (Bosmina) longirostris ( O. F. Müller, 1776) . Found once in a reservoir (loc. 1) in winter. Planktonic species. For description see Alonso (1996); for description of male see Kotov et al. (2009). Recorded worldwide, according to Chatterjee et al. (2013), who refer to unpublished genetical data of Taylor and Kotov, one of the few truly cosmopolitan cladocera . For list of records in China see Xiang et al. (2015).

Bosminopsis deitersi (Richard, 1895) . Found in reservoirs, ponds and rivers, more frequent in spring. Common planktonic species, presumed to be cosmopolitan, widely distributed in the Oriental region. For detailed description see Kotov (1997a, b). For list of records in China see Xiang et al. (2015).