Chydorus ventricosus Daday, 1898

CHATTERJEE, TAPAS, KOTOV, ALEXEY A., DAMME, KAY VAN, CHANDRASEKHAR, S. V. A. & PADHYE, SAMEER, 2013, An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India, Zootaxa 3667 (1), pp. 1-89 : 56

(116) Chydorus ventricosus Daday, 1898

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (1991b); Andhra Pradesh — Chandrasekhar (2010); Assam —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2010); Goa— Rane (2008); Gujarat — Petkovski (1966); Kerala — Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Raghunathan (1989), Subhash Babu & Nayar (2004); Maharashtra — Rane (2004, 2005a, b, 2006), Pandit et al. (2007); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Punjab— Battish (1981); Meghalaya —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); West Bengal — Chandrasekhar (1998a), Venkataraman (1998c), Venkataraman & Nandi (1997), Venkataraman et al. (2000), Venkataraman & Das (2001), Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002), Datta (2011); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Sri Lanka ( Daday 1898). The C. ventricosus- group needs to be revised worldwide: some differences between the Indian populations of C. ventricosus and C. reticulatus are shown in Michael & Hann (1979).

Distribution. “ Sri Lanka, India, China, Africa, South America” ( Smirnov 1996). Common in the Oriental zone ( Idris 1983; Maiphae et al. 2005; Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010).