Diaphanosoma brachyurum ( Liévin, 1848 )

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 : 6

(1) Diaphanosoma brachyurum ( Liévin, 1848) s. lat.

Indian records. Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm (1936), Akthar (1972), Yousuf & Qadri (1981), Balkhi (1987), Parveen (1988), Raina & Vass (1993), Nath (1994), Dar et al. (2002), Siraj et al. (2006); Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2008), Sharma R. et al. (2011), Tamil Nadu — Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009); West Bengal — Michael (1966b, 1968), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman & Das (1993, 2001), Venkataraman (1998c); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984), Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Koli & Muley (2012) misspelled this taxon as Diaphanosoma brachyarus .

Remarks. D. brachyurum s.str. is a valid species described Eastern Prussia, Poland now ( Liévin 1848). In reality, this is a complex of cryptic species with confused taxonomy ( Korovchinsky 2004) and the Indian populations need to be revised.

Distribution. Widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.