An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India Author CHATTERJEE, TAPAS Author KOTOV, ALEXEY A. Author DAMME, KAY VAN Author CHANDRASEKHAR, S. V. A. Author PADHYE, SAMEER text Zootaxa 2013 2013-06-05 3667 1 1 89 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3667.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3667.1.1 1175-5326 5266205 0A38BF2A-135C-4C57-B291-40C34DD54FB9 (48) Moina micrura Kurz, 1874 Indian records. Andaman & Nicobar Islands — Venkataraman (1991b , 1992d , 2000a ); Andhra Pradesh — Subbamma (1992 , 1993 ), Chandrasekhar & Kodarkar (1994) , Chandrasekhar (1994, 1998b, 2004a, 2010), Malathi et al. (1998) ; Assam — Biswas (1980) , Sharma B.K. et al. (2000), Sharma S. (2008b), Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2008 a, b); Bihar — Brehm (1950) , Verma & Duttamunshi (1983), Venkataraman & Nandi (1997) , Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2001); Delhi — Arora & Mehra (2009) ; Goa— Rane (2008) ; Haryana —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Jammu & Kashmir— Raina & Vass (1993) , Siraj et al. (2006 , 2007); Jharkhand — Venkataraman & Nandi (1997) , Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2008) ; Karnataka — Brehm (1953) , Raghunathan (1988) , Patil & Goudhar (1988), Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2007) ; Kerala —Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988); Kerala — Raghunathan (1989) , Subash Babu & Nayar (2004) , Subhash Babu & Thomas (2007) ; Madhya Pradesh — Mahor (2011) ; Maharashtra — Rane (2002 , 2004 , 2005b , 2006 , 2009 ), Pawar et al. (2003) , Pawar & Pulle (2005) , Jayabhaye & Madlapure (2006) , Deshpande et al. (2007) , Kamble et al. (2007) , Gaikwad et al. (2008), Waghmare & Lokhande (2009) , Jayabhaye (2010) , Ghantaloo et al. (2011) ; Manipur —Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. (2009a); Meghalaya —Sharma S (2010a, b); Punjab—Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Battish & Kumari (1982) ; Rajasthan — Biswas (1971) , Sharma R. et al. (2011), Sharma V. et al. (2012); Tamil Nadu — Brehm (1936) , Michael (1973) , Murugan & Job (1981) , Raghunathan (1983, 1990, 1991), Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman (1995a, 1999), Raghunathan & Revathi (1999a , c), Revathi & Raghunathan (1999), Isaiarasu (1999) , Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2002 , 2009), Kudari et al. (2005) , Usha et al. (2006) , Raghunathan & Valarmathi (2007) , Mohideen et al. (2008) , Kanagasabapathi & Rajan (2010) , Dheenadayalamoorty & Sultana (2011), Devi & Ramanibai (2012) , Prabhakar et al. (2012) ; Tripura —Venkataraman (1995b), Venkataraman & Das (2000) ; Uttarakhand — Mishra et al. (2010) ; West Bengal —Sharma B.K. (1978); Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988), Venkataraman (1993b) , Venkataraman & Nandi (1997) , Bilgrami (1991a) , Sinha & Khan (2000) , Venkataraman & Das (2001) , Venkataraman et al. (2000) , Chandrasekhar & Chatterjee (2002) , Khan (2003) , Mukhopadhyay et al. (2007) , Ganesan & Khan (2008) , Chattopadhyay & Barik (2009) , Patra et al. (2011) ; General record— Fernando & Kanduru (1984) , Sharma B.K. & Michael (1987), Murugan et al. (1998) ; Raghunathan & Suresh Kumar (2003) . Remarks. Valid species described from Czech Republic ( Kurz 1874 ). Worlwide this is a complex of cryptic species ( Petrusek et al. 2004 ). Note that Indian populaions described by Michael & Sharma B.K. (1988) belong to M. micrura dubia in understanding of Smirnov (1976) . Moina dodhui Rane, 1987 is a junior synonym of M. micrura (see Sharma B.K. & Sharma S. 1990). “ Moina dubia ” from West Bengal — Swell (1935) ; Tamil Nadu — Brehm (1936) , Bihar — Brehm (1950) , Karnataka — Brehm (1953) , Rajasthan — Biswas (1971) belongs also to Moina micrura Kurz, 1874 (see Michael & Sharma B.K. 1988). Biology of this species was studied by Murugan (1975a , 1989 ), Jana & Pal (1985b , c), Punia (1988) , Thresimma et al. (1991) , Jana & Chakrabarti (1993) , Altaff & Sivakumar (2002) , Sumita & Ramanibai (2003) and Subhash Babu & Nandan (2010) . Distribution. Widely distributed in tropics and subtropics, southern Europe. Moina micrura dubia see M. dubia