Pleuroxus hardingi Smirnov, Kotov & Coronel, 2006

Kotov, Alexey A., Sinev, Artem Y. & Berrios, Viviana Lorena, 2010, The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism 2430, Zootaxa 2430 (1), pp. 1-66 : 32

Pleuroxus hardingi Smirnov, Kotov & Coronel, 2006

Pleuroxus hardingi Smirnov, Kotov & Coronel, 2006, p. 1631 –1635, figs 53–75.

Material examined here. Many females from localities 3 and 4.

Diagnosis, description, differential diagnosis. See Smirnov et al. (2006).

Comments. Type localities are pools of the bofedal system in the cordillera del Tunari (part of the Cordillera Oriental) near the city of Cochabamba, Cercado Province, Bolivia (4000–4400 m.a.s.l., 17°10'56"S – 17 17'19"S, 66°07'62" – 66 22'99"W). Holotype: female, MGU Ml 57 . Paratypes: 5 females, MGU Ml 58 .

Distribution. Andean endemic, common in highland water bodies. It was known from pools in the cordillera del Tunari ( Bolivia), and from Lagunillas Pond near Lake Titicaca (Bolivia-Peru border) ( Smirnov et al. 2006). Here we found two populations from North Chile, so, this taxon is wider distributed in Andes than previously assumed.