Karualona fatimae Sinev & Semenyuk, 2023

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 : 16

Karualona fatimae Sinev & Semenyuk, 2023

(fig. 7 A–D).

A rare species occurred in a single channel (A11) and in a rice field (A26) in Hunan. The species is associated with macrophytes. The specimens studied present a typical morphology of the species, and are characterized by a very small basal spine of postabdominal claw (fig. 7 C). The species is distributed in South-East Asia; earlier it was presumed to be conspecific to Australian Karualona karua (King, 1863) ( Sinev & Semenyuk 2023) . Most earlier records of Karualona in China were attributed to K. karua ( Ji et al. 2015) , but our data suggest that it is not present in China. For detailed description see Sinev & Semenyuk (2023).