Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) carinata 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 : 15

(23) Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) carinata King, 1853 s.lat.

Indian records. Andhra Pradesh — Chandrasekhar (2004a), Thirupathaiah et al. (2011); Bihar— Nasar (1977), Bilgrami (1991a), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001), Singh (2008), Kumar et al. (2011); Goa— Rane (2008); Haryana —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Himachal Pradesh — Brehm (1950), Biswas (1964b), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Rajasthan — Biswas (1971), Nayar (1971), Paulose & Maheswari (2008); Jammu & Kashmir— Brehm & Woltereck (1939); Karanataka— Brehm (1950), Patil & Gouder (1989), Kiran et al. (2007), Ansari et al. (2008); Madhya Pradesh — Unni (1996), Shukla et al. (2002), Mahor (2011); Maharashtra – Rane (2004), Deshpande et al. (2007), Gaikwad et al. (2008), Waghmare & Lokhande (2009), Dhimdhime et al. (2012); Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Punjab—Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Rajasthan —Sharma V. et al. (2012); Tamil Nadu — Michael (1973), Raghunathan & Rane (2001), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002, 2009), Sivakumar et al. (2001), Kudari et al. (2005), Raghunathan & Valarmathi (2007), Renuga & Ramanibai (2010), Prabhakar et al. (2012); Uttar Pradesh — Brehm (1950), Gujarat — Brehm (1950); West Bengal —Sharma B.K. (1978), Mandal (1980), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman & Das (1993), Venkataraman (1998c), Sinha & Khan (2000), Khan (2003), Ganesan & Khan (2008), Datta (2011), Patra et al. (2011); General record— Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003).

Remarks. Valid species described from Australia ( King 1853b). D. carinata is “clearly composed of a number of cryptic taxa” ( Benzie 2005). Colbourne et al. (2006) arrived to a similar conclusion, yet the phylogroups revealed by these authors are coordinated poorly with earlier described taxa. Many records of D. carinata from India may belong to D. similis or D. similoides , as several previous authors apparently were confused within these three species. It means that all Indian records need verification. “ D. hyalina Leydig ” shown in Biswas (1971) belongs to D. carinata King (Michael & Sharma B.K. 1988, page. 62). Venkataraman & Das (1993) reported both “ Daphnia carinata Claus ” and Daphnia carinata King , which is a complete confusion and it is unclear what the authors meant. Daphnia sarojae Rane, 1986 is a junior synonym of Daphnia carinata King (Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. 1990) .

Indian authors made a valuable contribution to the investigations of biology of this species ( Vijayaraghavan 1970; Navaneethakrishnan & Michael 1971; Murugan & Venkataraman 1977; Santharam et al. 1977; O’Brien & Vinyard 1978; Venkataraman & Job 1979, 1980; Venkataraman 1981; Venkataraman & Manoharan 1983; Jana & Pal 1985a; Venkataraman et al. 1976, Jana & Chakrabarti 1993).

Distribution. “Australasia, Southern Asia, Africa” ( Benzie 2005).

Daphnia (Daphnia) catawba Coker, 1926

Indian records. Jammu & Kashmir— Akthar (1972), Nath (1994), Dar et al. (2002); Maharashtra — Ghantaloo et al. (2011).

Remarks. Very doubtful record. D. catawba is a valid species described from the USA ( Coker 1926), locally distributed in the eastern portion of USA and Canada ( Benzie 2005). Perhaps confused with D. pulex or D. pulicaria , to which it may look superficially similar.