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Biapertura ossiani subsp. herricki

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Description

Biapertura ossiani herricki (Sinev, 2013) comb. nov.

Daday 1905: 171–172, Pl. 10, Fig. 25–24 (Alona affinis); Sinev 2013: 330–335, Fig. 1–3 (Alona).

Type locality. Sebago Lake, Cumberland county, Maine, USA.

Type material. Holotype (parthenogenetic female), allotype (adult male) and paratypes (over 30 females and 5 males) at National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC, USA), access numbers 1207845, 1207846, 1207847 respectively.

Diagnosis. Male postabdomen (Fig. 16L) with 1–3 composite marginal denticles near the postanal angle.

Differential diagnosis. Biapertura ossiani herricki comb. nov. differs from nominative subspecies in the presence of 1–3 marginal denticles on postanal angle of male postabdomen.

Distribution: Canada, USA, Paraguay (Sinev 2013), probably invasive populations are also found in South Korea (Kotov et al. 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Sinev, Artem Y., 2020, Re-evaluation of the genus Biapertura Smirnov, 1971 (Cladocera: Anomopoda Chydoridae), pp. 301-335 in Zootaxa 4885 (3) on pages 326-327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296625

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sinev
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diplostraca
Family
Chydoridae
Genus
Biapertura
Species
herricki
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Biapertura ossiani subsp. herricki (Sinev, 2013) sec. Sinev, 2020

References

  • Daday, E. (1905) Untersuchungenuber die Susswasser Mikrofauna Paraguays. Zoologica, 18 (44), 1 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11316
  • Sinev, A. Y. (1998) Alona ossiani sp. n., a new species of the Alona affinis complex from Brasil, deriving from the collection of G. O. Sars (Anomopoda: Chydoridae). Arthropoda Selecta, 7 (2), 103 - 110.
  • Kotov, A. A., Sinev, A. Y., Garibian, P. G., Neretina, A. N., Jeong, H. G., Lee, W., Chae, K. S. & Min, G. S. (2018) Recent progress in studies of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of South Korea with seven new records for the Korean Peninsula. Journal of Species Research, 6, 227 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3368.1.4