Leberis diaphanus (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 : 47-48

(94) Leberis diaphanus (King, 1853) s.lat.

Indian records. West Bengal — Mandal (1980) ( Alonella diaphana ).

Remarks. Valid species described from Australia ( King 1853a) and then redescribed by Sinev et al. (2005). This is a new, correct combination for Alona diaphana —see Sinev et al. (2005) and Van Damme et al. (2010).

Distribution. Tropics of Africa, Australia, Oriental zone ( Sinev et al. 2005). Very common in the Oriental zone ( Maiphae et al. 2005; Tanaka & Ohtaka 2010), but records outside of Australasia should be revised.

Leberis davidi ( Richard, 1895)

Indian records. Andhra Pradesh — Chandrasekhar (1998b, 2004 a, 2010), Karuthapandi et al. (2012); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2011); Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); Tripura —Vekatraman (1995b); West Bengal —Sharma B.K. (1978), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman & Das (1983), Venkataraman & Nandi (1997), Chandrasekhar (1998a),Venkataraman (1998c), Sinha & Khan (2000), Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002), Khan (2003); General records— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003);

Remarks. Dubious record. Leberis davidi s.str. is a valid Neotropical species originally described from Haiti ( Richard 1895; Kotov & Ferrari 2010). Most probably, Indian records of L. davidi belong to another Leberis of the L. diaphanus- group, instead of Neotropical species L. davidi . Confusion remains because Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988, p. 175–179) listed Alona davidi davidi and Alona davidi punctata as two Indian species of this group (later Leberis ), and they can be considered separate species.