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Notostraca Sars 1867

Description

Order Notostraca Sars, 1867

Family Triopsidae Keilhack, 1909. Triops granarius (Lucas, 1864) is the only species known from the area. First reported by Pai (1958), this species has been subsequently reported from NWG as a different species (Triops orientalis Tiwari, 1951) only to be synonymized later (Raj, 1971). Ghate and Shetty (1997) observed this species in a temporary pool on the outskirts of Pune city. We observed T. granarius commonly in the NWG during the monsoon season. Variations in characters such as the dorsal organ shape, telsonic spines and apodous segments were seen in the studied specimens, which is common for this species (Longhurst 1955). Based on sequence data of CO1, 16S and 12S, it has been recently shown that there might be two different T. granarius lineages in Western Ghats of Maharashtra itself (Korn et al. 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Padhye, Sameer, Rabet, Nicolas & Ghate, Hemant, 2015, First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments, pp. 208-222 in Zootaxa 3904 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/241884

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sars
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Notostraca
Taxon rank
order
Taxonomic concept label
Notostraca Sars, 1867 sec. Padhye, Rabet & Ghate, 2015

References

  • Pai, L (1958) On the post embryonic stages of phyllopod crustaceans, Triops (Apus), Streptocephalus and Estheria. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science, 48 B, 229 - 250.
  • Tiwari, K. K. (1951) Indian species of the genus Apus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) with description of two new species. Records of the Indian Museum, XLIX, 197 - 205.
  • Raj, P. J. S. (1971) Triops granarius (Lucas) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Tamil Nadu, and a review of the species from India, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 68, 161 - 168.
  • Ghate, H. V. & Shetty, N. (1997) Record of Triops (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Notostraca) from Pune, Maharashtra. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 94 (3), 588 - 589.
  • Longhurst, A. R. (1955) A review of the Notostraca. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 3, 1 - 57.
  • Korn, M., Rabet, N., Ghate, H. V., Marrone, F. & Hundsdoerfer, A. (2013) Molecular phylogeny of the Notostraca. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69, 1159 - 1171. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2013.08.006