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Scapholeberis smirnovi Garibian, Neretina, Taylor & Kotov 2020

  • 1. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1 - 12, Moscow 119991, Russia.
  • 2. Biological Faculty, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, No. 1, International University Park Road, Dayun New Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 518172, China. & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1 - 12, Moscow 119991, Russia.
  • 3. China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment No. 16 - 18, Ruihe Road, Huangpu District, Guangzhou 510535, China. & Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
  • 4. Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.

Description

Scapholeberis smirnovi Garibian, Neretina, Taylor & Kotov, 2020

(Fig. 4 D–I).

An abundant neustonic species occurring in all types of water bodies in both spring and winter. Ephippial females found in rice fields (S27, A28) and in two ponds (S32, A29) possessed dorsal keels on the ephippium (fig. 4 E) specific for the taxon. S. smirnovi was described from material from the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan (Garibian et al. 2020). It is sibling-species of S. kingii Sars, 1888 (syn. S. kingi, Sars 1903) described from Australia and earlier presumed to be pantropical. However, the recent taxonomic status of East and South-East Asian populations, earlier identified as S. kingii, is doubtful. S. kingii and S. smirnovi have identical morphology of parthenogenetic females, and can be differentiated morphologically only by shape of the ephippium. Our data clarify the taxonomic status of populations from Central China, suggesting all records of S. kingii (Xiang et al. 2015, as S. kingi) belong to S. smirnovi instead. For a detailed description see Garibian et al. (2020).

Notes

Published as part of Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 5380 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212806

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  • Garibian, P. G., Neretina, A. N., Taylor, D. J. & Kotov, A. A. (2020) Partial revision of the neustonic genus Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Crustacea: Cladocera): decoding of the barcoding results. PeerJ, 8, e 10410. https: // doi. org / 10.7717 / peerj. 10410
  • Xiang, X. F., Ji, G. H., Chen, S. Z., Yu, G. L., Xu, L., Han, B. P., Kotov, A. A. & Dumont, H. J. (2015) Annotated Checklist of Chinese Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Part I. Haplopoda, Ctenopoda, Onychopoda and Anomopoda (families Daphniidae, Moinidae, Bosminidae, Ilyocryptidae). Zootaxa, 3904 (1), 1 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3904.1.1