Diaphanosoma modigliani Richard, 1894

Kotov, Alexey A. & Ferrari, Frank D., 2010, The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U. S. A., Zootaxa 2551 (1), pp. 37-64 : 44

1. Diaphanosoma modigliani Richard, 1894

Diaphanosoma modigliani Richard 1894b, p. 566 –568, figs 1–3; Richard 1895d, p. 363–365, Pl. 15: figs 13–14, Pl. 16: fig. 22; Korovchinsky 1991, p. 180–184, figs 1A–K, 2A–E; Korovchinsky 1992, p. 42, figs 203–210; Korovchinsky 1998, p. 114, figs 1–8; Korovchinsky 2004, p. 304, 306, fig. 113.

Type locality. "Lac Toba" (Richard 1894b), North Sumatra, Indonesia .

Type specimens. Lectotype NHM 1980.234 . Paralectotypes NHM 1980.235 .

Richard's specimens in DFG. According to the hand-written catalogue, sample DGF 723 was from “Balige (Lac Toba, Sumatra)”, coll. in 24.xi.1891 by M. E. Modigliani . However, according to the label in the jar 723, this sample is from Lake Titicaca and collected in 1969. So , the initial sample with number 723 is no longer present in the collection, and there are no other samples from Lake Toba in the Richard’s collection now. Lectotype and paralectotypes were selected from this sample and sent to NHM by V. Kořínek during his visit to David G. Frey in 1971–1972 .

Comments. This valid species is apparently rare, occurring only in Sumatra and Sulawesi, Indonesia ( Korovchinsky 2004) .