Dunhevedia crassa crassa King, 1853

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 : 57-58

(121) Dunhevedia crassa crassa King, 1853

Indian records. Assam—Sharma S (2008a); Bihar—Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Goa— Rane (2008); Gujarat — Petkovski (1966); Jharkhand — Venkataraman & Nandi (1997); Kerala —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Maharashtra — Rane (2002, 2004, 2005b, 2009); Manipur — Sharma & Sharma (2009a); Meghalaya —Sharma S. (2010a), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); West Bengal — Gurney (1907), Sharma B.K. (1978), Michael and Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman & Nandi (1997), Chandrasekhar (1998a), Sinha & Khan (2000), Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002), Khan (2003); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Australia ( King 1853a).

Distribution. “Worldwide, at warm latitudes” ( Smirnov 1996); common in the Oriental zone (e.g., Maiphae et al. 2005).

Dunhevedia interrupta Brehm, 1936

Type locality. “Ebenda”, Kashmir , India ( Brehm, 1936) .

Indian records. Jammu and Kashmir — Brehm (1936).

Remarks. Junior synonym of D. crassa ciliocaudata (Sovinsky, 1891) (Michael & Sharma B.K.1988) . The diagnostic characters of Brehm’s (1936) taxon fall within the variability ranges of D. crassa .