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Issue: Vol. 4158 No. 3: 30 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.3.7
Page range: 419–432
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Review of the Eulimnadia (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) from Argentina with the description of a new species

Laboratorio de Artrópodos, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 4º Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Grupo de Estudio de Mosquitos, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 4º Piso, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques (BOREA, UMR 7208), Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, UCN, UA, UPMC, CNRS, IRD, CP26 75231, 43 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris Cedex 05, France Laboratório de Biossistemática Animal, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, UESB/DEBI, BR 415, Km 03, 45700-000 Itapetinga, Brazil
Crustacea Clam shrimps Limnadiidae resting eggs spermatophores Argentina identification key

Abstract

A new spinicaudatan species, Eulimnadia pampa sp. nov., is described from Argentina mostly based on the differential egg morphology. This species was collected from rainwater pools from Buenos Aires City and the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos, and compared to other Neotropical species. Previous Argentine record of E. brasiliensis is shown to belong to our new species, which represents the southernmost Neotropical Eulimnadia. We also present new records of the Paraguayan Eulimnadia ovisimilis Martin and Belk, 1989 from northeastern Argentina. Eulimnadia santiaguensis is treated as a species inquirenda, thus we recognize only three Eulimnadia species in Argentina: E. pampa sp. nov., E. ovilunata and E. ovisimilis, and we provide a brief indentification key. We present the first description and SEM images of the putative Eulimnadia spermatophore, which we found in the new species.

 

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