Open Access<p><strong>A new species of <em>Leptestheria</em> (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) from Western Maharashtra, India</strong></p>
Author(s) -
Sameer M. Padhye,
Hemant V. Ghate
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
zootaxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1175-5334
pISSN - 1175-5326
DOI - 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.6
Subject(s) - biology , telson , branchiopoda , crustacean , zoology , cladocera , decapoda
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.