Key for identification of Cladocera of the subfamily Aloninae (Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from South-East Asia
Author
Sinev, Artem Y.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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451
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4200.4.1
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1175-5326
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Leydigiopsis
Sars, 1901
Parthenogenetic female short description.
Body high oval (
Fig. 12A
); head and valves without a keel. Valves without sculpture. Posteroventral angle of valves without denticles. Rostrum long, curved. Main head pore as elongated rimmed field, lateral head pores minute. Labral keel of moderate width, with a rounded apex, without clusters of setulae on posterior margin.
Postabdomen broad (
Fig. 12B
), with convex postanal margin, convex distal margin and broadly rounded distal angle; length about 2.3–2.6 heights. Preanal angle well-defined; postanal angle weakly defined. Postanal denticles large, numerous; length of distalmost denticles over 2 widths of postabdominal claw base. Postanal lateral groups of setulae of moderate length; in distalmost groups, length of setulae about the width of base of postabdominal claw. Postabdominal claw long, almost straight, with rudimentary basal spine.
Antennule with three lateral aesthetascs; all terminal aesthetascs of similar length. Antennal seta arising from well-defined tubercule. Antenna with a spine-like seta on basal segment of endopodite. Spine on basal segment of exopodite about 2/3 length of middle segment. Spines on apical segments of same lenght than apical segments. IDL of limb I with three setae; seta 1 short, seta 2–3 thin, armed with thin setulae.
Single species,
Leydigiopsis pulchra
Van Damme & Sinev, 2013
(
Fig. 13A–B
). Length of adult
0.65–0.75 mm
.
Inhabit forest
peat swamps and humic ponds; bottom-dwelling species. Species is known from
South Thailand
,
Cambodia
,
South Vietnam
and
India
(
Van Damme
& Sinev, 2013
). For detailed description see
Van Damme
& Sinev (2013)
.