Review of the (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) of Tropical Asia, with the Description of a New Species.
Author
Sanoamuang, La-orsri
Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand. & International College, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
Author
Padhye, Sameer M.
Systematics, Ecology & Conservation Lab, Zoo Outreach Organization, Coimbatore, India. E-mail: sameer. m. padhye @ gmail. com (Padhye) & Present address: Biologia Life Science LLP, Ahmednagar, India
sameer.m.padhye@gmail.com
Author
Rogers, D. Christopher
Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence,
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Zoological Studies
2020
2020-08-05
59
41
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7
http://dx.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2020.59-41
journal article
10.6620/ZS.2020.59-41
1810-522X
PMC7736772
33335591
12822581
224B360D-01D7-477D-959F-BE7EA42F6D2C
Eulimnadia michaeli
Nayar and Nair, 1968
=
Limnadia michaeli
(
Nayar and Nair, 1968
)
=
Eulimnadia khoratensis
Rogers, Dadseepai, and Sanoamuang, 2016
New Status
Comments
: This species was treated as a species inquirenda by
Rogers and Padhye (2015)
, based on the lack of type material and poor descriptions. In 2016,
Rogers et al. (2016b)
described what was believed to be a new species from the
Khorat
Plateau in north central
Thailand
.
Padhye and Kulkarni (2017)
reported
E. khoratensis
from
India
and examined the extensive morphological variation in this species. All these authors were unaware of the paper by
Samyiah et al. (1985)
, wherein scanning electron micrograph images of
topotype
material of
E. michaeli
, including the egg, were presented. There is little doubt that, based on the images of the eggs,
E. khoratensis
is a junior synonym of
E. michaeli
. Rogers et al. (2016: 570) wrote: “… it is possible that
E. khoratensis
n. sp.
could be a junior synonym of
E. gunturensis
Radhakrishna and Durga Prasad, 1976
,
Eulimnadia michaeli
Nayar and Nair, 1968
, or
Eulimnadia ovata
Nayar, 1965
if the morphologies of the eggs of these species are ever properly described according to modern standards.”
This species ranges across tropical Asia from
India
,
Sri Lanka
, and
Thailand
(
Rogers and Padhye 2015
;
Rogers et al. 2016a
;
Padhye and Kulkarni 2017
). The
types
of
E. michaeli
are presumed lost, but the
types
of
E. khoratensis
are deposited at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN-IU-2014-17472).
Keys to the Tropical Asian
Eulimnadia
(key adapted from
Padhye et al. 2018
)
1 Egg
cylindrical ........................................................................... 2
- Egg spherical/ sub-spherical ....................................................... 3
2(1) Flat ends dilated into flanges ...........................
Eulimnadia bondi
- Domed ends without flanges ......................................
Eulimnadia braueriana
/
Eulimnadia indocylindrova
(Note: possible synonyms)
3(1) Polygons separated by thin, narrow ridges ................................. 4
- Polygons separated by thick, rounded ridges; polygons with a narrow slit in the central depression; egg with 18–26 polygons ... ......................................................................
Eulimnadia michaeli
4(3) Polygons with floors bearing obvious central pores or grooves .... ..................................................................................................... 5
- Polygon depression floors smooth, unornamented; egg with 20–26 polygons .....................................
Eulimnadia magdalensis
5(4) Egg with 12–16 polygons; depressions ornamented randomly with small groove/s and 1–3 pores on either side of the groove ... .......................................................................
Eulimnadia chaperi
- Egg with 14–18 polygons; depressions ornamented with a narrow central groove ..................................
Eulimnadia cryptus
sp. nov.