Alona quadrangularis (O.F. Müller, 1776 )

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 : 39-40

(78) Alona quadrangularis (O.F. Müller, 1776) s.lat.

Indian records. Andhra Pradesh — Chandrasekhar (1996, 2004a), Karuthapandi et al. (2012); Assam — Biswas (1980), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a, b); Bihar —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Jammu & Kashmir— Siraj et al. (2006); Karnataka — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2007); Ansari et al. (2008); Madhya Pradesh — Shukla et al. (2002); Mahrashtra—Patil G.P. et al. (2008); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya — Biswas (1980), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (1999; 2011), Sharma S. (2010a, b); South India — Brehm (1953); Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2012); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009), Dheenadayalamoorty & Sultana (2011), Prabhakar et al. (2012); West Bengal — Brehm (1953); Venkataraman & Das (1983); Chatterjee & Chandrasekhar (1999), Venkataraman (1998c), Khan (2003); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Denmark (O.F. Müller 1776), type species of the genus Alona Baird, 1843 ( Van Damme & Dumont 2008b).

Distribution. Regarded as cosmopolitan ( Smirnov 1971), but recent investigations demonstrated that non- Palaearctic populations belong to separate species ( Sinev & Coronel 2006; Van Damme & Dumont 2008b). Real distibution is unknown. Alona kotovi Sinev, 2012 , was recently described from Vietnam (Sinev 2012), and could present in India instead of A. quadrangularis s.str.

Alona rectangula rectangula , see Coronatella rectangula rectangula

Alona rectangula richardi , see Coronatella rectangula richardi