Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) fusca Gurney, 1906

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(25) Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) fusca Gurney, 1906

Indian records. Himachal Pradesh — Biswas (1964b); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971); General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984); Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Pakistan-Afganistan border ( Gurney 1906; Benzie 2005). It is very similar in morphology to D. tibetana (Sars, 1903) , but regarded as valid species.

Distribution. High mountains of Asia: the Pamir, Hindu-kush, Ladakh and Simla Hills in India, and Nepal ( Benzie 2005).

Daphnia (Daphnia) hyalina Leydig, 1860

Indian records. Rajasthan — Biswas (1971); General record— Fernando and Kanduru (1984).

Remarks. D. hyalina was described from Europe ( Leydig 1860). Even in the eastern Palaearctic it is absent, where a sibling species, D. dentifera Forbes, 1893 occurs ( Ishida & Taylor 2007). In addition, there is an extreme opinion that D. hyalina is a junior synonym of D. longispina (O.F. Müller, 1776) (see Petrusek et al. 2008), which could be checked. In any case, the presence of D. hyalina in India is very dubious.

Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) hypsicephala Daday, 1911

Type locality. “Bangalore, in einer Höhe von 3000 engl. Fuss (= 915 Meter) über den Meeresspiegel”, Karnataka, India ( Daday 1911) .

Indian records. Karnataka — Daday (1911); General record— Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Junior synonym of Daphnia cephalata King, 1853 .

Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) hypsicephala f. eurycephala Daday, 1911 and Daphnia hypsicephala f. stenocephala Daday, 1911

Remarks. These two forms were described from the same locality as Daphnia hypsicephala Daday, 1911 . Daday (1911) did not mark a nomenotypical form, as it was common at that time. Therefore, these two forms are junior synonyms of Daphnia hypsicephala s.str., which is a junior synonym of D. cephalata King, 1853 .

Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) katrajensis Rane, Jafri & Rafiq, 1992

Type locality. " Katraj tank on Pune-Satara road, Pune district ”, Maharashtra State, India ( Rane et al. 1992) .

Indian records. Maharashtra — Rane et al. (1992); General record— Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003);

Remarks. Species inquirenda. Author’s description is not detailed enough for any conclusions on the status of described specimens except of the fact that they belong to the subgenus Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) judging from the sharp fornices and male antenna I.

Daphnia (Daphnia) laevis Birge, 1879

Indian records. Jammu & Kashmir— Nath (1994), Dar et al. (2002), Akhtar et al. (2007); Maharashtra —Patil et al. (2008), Kedar et al. (2008).

Remarks. Doubtful record. D. laevis was described from USA ( Birge 1879). It is a valid species from a South American-North American-African complex, yet species belonging to the latter group are absent in Asia ( Benzie 2005).

Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) longicephala Hebert, 1977

Indian records. Maharashtra — Rane (2006); Tamil Nadu — Michael (1973), Venkataraman & Krishnaswamy (1986b), Venkataraman (1999b), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002); General record— Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Described from Australia ( Hebert 1977). Junior synonym of D. carinata ( Benzie 2005) . Colbourne et al. (2006) regarded D. longicephala as one of the carinata -like phylogroups, but their genetical data are not coordinated with real taxa. Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003) incorrectly put “Barry” as an author of this taxon, we have no idea who this is.

Venkataraman (1999b) commented on his record of D. longicephala that “this is the first record of its occurrence in India ”, but Venkataraman & Krishnaswami (1986b) already recorded this species from Tamil Nadu.

Daphnia (Daphnia) longiremis Sars, 1862

Indian records. Jammu & Kashmir— Das et al. (1969), Nath (1994).

Remarks. D. longiremis was described from Norway ( Sars 1862a). Apparently wrong record, because D. longiremis is a cold-water species distributed only in the northern Holarctic ( Brooks 1957; Benzie 2005).