Camptocercus rectirostris Schoedler, 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 : 42

(82) Camptocercus rectirostris Schoedler, 1862

Indian records. Assam — Biswas (1980), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008a, b); Goa— Rane (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm(1936), Akthar (1972), Yousuf et al. (1984), Balkhi (1987); Maharashtra — Rane (2002, 2005b); Meghalaya — Patil (1976); West Bengal —Venkataraman & Das (1983), Khan (2003); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Germany ( Schoedler, 1862).

Distribution. Common in the Palaearctic and likely restricted to this region, yet “ the boundaries in the East and South are unknown ” ( Smirnov 1998). Oriental records (Michael & Sharma B.K. 1988; Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010) need to be revised.