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Issue: Vol. 3911 No. 3: 20 Jan. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.3.11
Page range: 447–450
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 3

Morphological characterization of Streptocephalus sirindhornae (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from South East Asia: First record of the Streptocephalidae from China

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao chang dong lu, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, La Paz, Baja California Sur, 23096 México.
Kansas Biological Survey/Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), Kansas University, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao chang dong lu, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao chang dong lu, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Branchiopoda Anostraca

Abstract

During a zooplankton study in southern China, Streptocephalus specimens were collected from ephemeral ponds located in the Yunnan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. We determined that the specimens from both locations are Streptocephalus sirindhornae Sanoamuang, Murugan, Weekers, and Dumont, 2000. This documents are the first records of Streptocephalidae in China, which represent its northern and easternmost distributional edge in East Asia. All specimens are deposited in Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The morphological terminology follows Rogers and Padhye (2014) and the material is compared with the original description (Sanoamuang et al., 2000).