Chydorus parvus 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 : 55

(112) Chydorus parvus Daday, 1898

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (1992d, 2000a); Andhra Pradesh — Siddiqi & Chandrasekhar (1993), Chandrasekhar (1996, 2004a, 2006, 2010); Jharkhand — Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2008); Kerala —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Meghalaya —Sharma S. (2010a); Punjab— Battish (1981); Tamil Nadu — Venkataraman (1999b), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Ragunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009), Raghunathan & Valarmathi (2007); West Bengal — Chandrasekhar (2004b), 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).

Distribution. “ Ethiopian and Indo-Malayan regions ” ( Smirnov 1996). Common in the Oriental zone ( Idris 1983; Maiphae et al. 2005), in fact this is one of the most common Chydorus species in India.