Alona guttata Sars, 1862

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 : 37

(75) Alona guttata Sars, 1862 s.lat.

Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (2000a); Assam — Biswas (1980), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a,b); Bihar –Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Singh (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm (1936), Yousuf et al. (1984), Parveen (1988), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Raina & Vass (1993), Nath (1994), Siraj et al. (2006, 2007), Akhtar et al. (2007); Jharkhand — Venkataraman & Nandi (1997); Karnataka — Raghunathan (1988); Madhya Pradesh — Shukla et al (2002); Maharashtra — Rane (2002, 2006); Manipur — Sharma & Sharma (2009a); Meghalaya —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (1999; 2011), Sharma S. (2008a); Tamil Nadu — Brehm (1936), Raghunathan (1983, 1990, 1991), Raghunathan & Revathi (1999a, c), Revathi & Raghunathan (1999), Raghunathan & Rane (2001), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2008); Tripura — Venkataraman & Das (2000); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Norway ( Sars 1862b). Oriental populations need to be revised, as there are more than one species in the region (Van Damme et al. 2010). Tuberculate forms indicated as “ tuberculata” (see below) are not subspecies or species, this character is subject to variability even within a population.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan species complex ( Smirnov 1971), yet true distributions are unknown and taxonomy is highly complicated in A. guttata s.lat. (Van Damme et al. 2010).

Alona guttata tuberculata Kurz, 1874

Indian records. Assam — Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2010; 2012) .

Remarks. Described from Czech Republic ( Kurz 1874). Tuberculated morphotypes, described for different forms of Alona or Alona- like taxa, are not valid species (Van Damme et al. 2010). In this case, it can be considered as a variety, not a subspecies of A. guttata .

Alona harpularia , see Coronatella harpularia

Alona holdeni , see Coronatella holdeni