Notostraca Sars, 1867

Padhye, Sameer, Rabet, Nicolas & Ghate, Hemant, 2015, First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments, Zootaxa 3904 (2), pp. 208-222 : 212

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687760
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scientific name	Notostraca Sars, 1867
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Order Notostraca Sars, 1867 View in CoL

Family Triopsidae Keilhack, 1909 View in CoL . Triops granarius (Lucas, 1864) View in CoL is the only species known from the area. First reported by Pai (1958), this species has been subsequently reported from NWG as a different species ( Triops orientalis Tiwari, 1951 View in CoL ) only to be synonymized later ( Raj, 1971). Ghate and Shetty (1997) observed this species in a temporary pool on the outskirts of Pune city. We observed T. granarius View in CoL commonly in the NWG during the monsoon season. Variations in characters such as the dorsal organ shape, telsonic spines and apodous segments were seen in the studied specimens, which is common for this species ( Longhurst 1955). Based on sequence data of CO1, 16S and 12S, it has been recently shown that there might be two different T. granarius View in CoL lineages in Western Ghats of Maharashtra itself ( Korn et al. 2013).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Branchiopoda
Order	Notostraca