Leberis punctatus ( 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 : 48

(95) Leberis punctatus ( Daday, 1898)

Indian records. Andhra Pradesh — Chandrasekhar (1998b, 2004a); Goa— Rane (2008); Kerala — Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007); Maharashtra — Rane (2002, 2004, 2005); Tamil Nadu —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman (1995a), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); West Bengal —Sharma B.K. (1978), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002); General record—Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003)

Remarks. Described from Sri Lanka ( Daday 1898). This taxon needs redescription and could be a valid oriental species— type material is still present in Daday’s collection ( Forró & Frey 1982).

Distribution. Africa, Australia ( Smirnov 1971), Oriental zone (Michael & Sharma B.K. 1998). Records outside of the Oriental region could belong to different species.