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Issue: Vol. 3904 No. 1: 5 Jan. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.1
Page range: 1–27
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Annotated Checklist of Chinese Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Part I. Haplopoda, Ctenopoda, Onychopoda and Anomopoda (families Daphniidae, Moinidae, Bosminidae, Ilyocryptidae)

Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7# Southern Road of East Lake, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, China.
College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7# Southern Road of East Lake, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, China.
Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7# Southern Road of East Lake, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, China.
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow 119071, Russia Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya Str.18, Kazan 420000, Russia
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Cladocera Checklist China taxonomy

Abstract

Approximately 199 cladoceran species, 5 marine and 194 freshwater and continental saltwater species, live in China. Of these, 89 species are discussed in this paper. They belong to the 4 cladoceran orders, 10 families and 23 genera. There are 2 species in Leptodoridae; 6 species in 4 genera and 3 families in order Onychopoda; 18 species in 7 genera and 2 families in order Ctenopoda; and 63 species in 11 genera and 4 families in non-Radopoda Anomopoda. Five species might be endemic of China and three of Asia. Many records are suspect at the species level, and numerous taxonomic problems remain to be settled.