Eulimnadia compressa ( Baird, 1860 )

Rabet, Nicolas, 2010, Revision of the egg morphology of Eulimnadia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata), Zoosystema 32 (3), pp. 373-391 : 380

Eulimnadia compressa ( Baird, 1860)

Estheria compressa Baird, 1860: 188 , tab. 71, fig. 6.

Limnadia compressa – Simon 1886: 452. — Brtek 1997: 57.

Eulimnadia compressa – Daday de Deés 1926: 558, fig. 140.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Nagpur, in the state of Maharashtra, India.

RANGE. — This species is probably well distributed in India but without egg morphology indications from the type specimen we should consider all other citations as doubtful.

REMARKS

Under this name Daday de Deés included two populations stored in MNHN but they have differing egg morphologies (compare Figure 2H and Figure 3F ) and are determined in this paper as E. chaperi and E. magdalensis . No description of the E. compressa type specimen egg morphology is available, making it problematic to use this name without morphological analysis of the type specimens or without an extensive survey of Eulimnadia populations in the area of the type locality.

Figures

FIG. 2.— Eggs morphology:A-D, Eulimnadia alluaudi Daday de Deés,1926,eggs from the type specimen;E-I, Eulimnadia chaperi (Simon, 1886), eggs from the type specimen; E, immature egg; F-I, mature eggs. Scale bars: A-C, E, F, 100 μm; D, G, H, 20 μm; I, 5 μm.

FIG. 3. — Eggs morphology: A-C, Eulimnadia geayi Daday de Deés, 1926, eggs from the type specimen; D-F, Eulimnadia magdalensis Roessler,1990 from Cambodia;G-I, Eulimnadia mauritiana (Guérin,1837),eggs from the type specimen.Scale bars:A-D,G-I, 100 μm; E, F, 10 μm.