Anthalona sanoamuangae Sinev & Kotov, 2012

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 : 14

Anthalona sanoamuangae Sinev & Kotov, 2012

(fig. 6 E–I).

A single ephippial female and a single male were found in autumn in an artificial lake (A34). The first record for China. Species is known from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, rare, usually recorded from streams and rivers (Sinev 2016). It is also the first record of the ephippial female for this species. In the preserved specimen, ephippium is weakly yellow-brown, covered by minute, irregularly spaced dots. Distinctive characters of the species include characteristic shape and armament of postabdomen in both sexes with strongly protruding preanal angle (fig. 7 F, I); IDL setae of thoracic limb I armed with uniform thin spinules in both male and female (fig. 7 H, J); antenna with a cluster of very long setulae on basal segment of exopodite (fig. 7 G). Studied specimens differ from those recorded from South-East Asia by having a less protuberant preanal angle of the postabdomen and somewhat longer antennal spines. For description see Sinev & Kotov (2012).