Dadaya macrops ( Daday, 1898 )

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 : 56-57

(117) Dadaya macrops ( Daday, 1898)

Indian records. Assam —Sharma S. (2008, a, b); Kerala —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007); Maharashtra — Rane (2006); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya — Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Southern India — Brehm (1953); Tamil Nadu —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Ragunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Sri Lanka ( Daday 1898).

Distribution. “Circumtropical” ( Smirnov 1996). Very common in the Oriental zone ( Idris 1983; Maiphae et al. 2005; Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010).

Disparalona adiyodii Subhash Babu & Thomas, 2007

Type locality. “ Muriyad Wetlands , Trichur District, Kerala, India ” ( Subhash Babu & Thomas 2007) .

Indian record: Kerala — Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007).

Comments: From the description ( Subhash Babu & Thomas 2007), which includes useful drawings, it seems that this species resembles Disparalona hamata ( Birge, 1879) . The latter, which was described from North America, has a wide distribution and could be a species group. It is possible that Asian records correspond to a valid species, but “true” D. hamata should be redescribed in detail, and a special revision needs to be conducted to confirm an independent species status of Indian populations.