Daphnia (Daphnia) obtusa Kurz, 1874

Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, Zootaxa 5380 (1), pp. 1-25 : 10

Daphnia (Daphnia) obtusa Kurz, 1874 .

A common planktonic species in spring, abundant in lakes, ponds and rice fields, in autumn found only in a single rice field (A38), but abundant here. Ephippial females occurred in spring in a lake (S20) and a rice field (S27). A widespread Palearctic species or species complex ( Maruoka et al. 2018; Korovchinsky et al. 2021). For description see Korovchinsky et al. (2021).