First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments Author Padhye, Sameer Author Rabet, Nicolas Author Ghate, Hemant text Zootaxa 2015 3904 2 208 222 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.2 fb30f740-b58c-46e2-b440-667d6a2fc8e1 1175-5326 241884 676DA9F1-F2C1-44DA-ACCE-BDEAD7DBD7AF 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 ).