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Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-06
Page range: 208–222
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First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments

Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore 641035, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Pune-07.
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbone université, UMR 7208 MNHN/CNRS/UPMC/IRD/UNIV-CAEN/UNIV-AG. Paris, France.
Modern College, Shivajinagar, Pune.
Artemia Streptocephalus Triops Eulimnadia egg morphology

Abstract

An updated inventory of large branchiopods of the Western Maharashtra state, India is presented for the first time. Employing current identification keys, we have detailed the egg morphology of Eulimnadia indocylindrova, which shares some similarities with E. geayi from South America and E. alluaudi from Madagascar, based on these egg characters. A thorough re-description of few morphological traits of the same species is also presented. We also have described the female of a Cyzicus species seen rarely from the studied region. Distributional comments on few species are also reported.