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Issue: Vol. 4127 No. 2: 23 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.6
Page range: 345–354
Abstract views: 160
PDF downloaded: 48

A new species of Leptestheria (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) from Western Maharashtra, India

Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore 641035, Tamil Nadu, India Dept. of Zoology, Prof. Ramkrishna More Arts, Commerce and Science College, Pune – 411044.
Post-Graduate Research Centre, Department of Zoology, Modern College, Shivajinagar, Pune.
Crustacea Clam shrimps Diplostraca Leptestheriidae Rocky outcrops

Abstract

We describe a new species of Leptestheria from a rock pool in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. This species is distinguished from all other Indian congeners by its distinct telson characters and occipital condyle. We also present a comparative table of useful morphological characters of all described Indian Leptestheria species.

 

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