Ceriodaphnia nikolaii Garibian & Andreeva & Kotov 2023, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Garibian, Petr G., Andreeva, Lena V., Kotov, Alexey A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Branchiopoda; Diplostraca; Daphnidae; Ceriodaphnia; Ceriodaphnia nikolaii; Sakha; Yakutsk; Andreeva; lena river; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7930781; https://zenodo.org/record/7930781

Ceriodaphnia nikolaii sp. nov. (Figs. 9–16) Etymology. The taxon is named after our teacher, Prof. Nikolai N. Smirnov, who initiated great progress in the studies of cladocerans in Eurasia and in the world and collected the type series. Type locality. An un-named oxbow of the Lena River, City Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia (62.0˚N, 129.8˚E). Type material. Holotype. A parthenogenetic female, MGU Ml 266 at the Collection of Zoological Museum of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Allotype. An adult male, MGU Ml 267. Paratypes. Ten parthenogenetic females, six ephippial female and seven adult males, MGU Ml 268. Several parthenogenetic, ephippial females and males, AAK 1999-045. Adult parthenogenetic female. General (Figs. 9b,c,e,f). Body subovoid in lateral view, with maximum height in middle of valves. Dorsal margin interrupted by a depression in posterior head portion. Dorsal and ventral portion ovoid, poster-dorsal angle present, with small caudal spine. ... : Published as part of Garibian, Petr G., Andreeva, Lena V. & Kotov, Alexey A., 2023, A new species of the genus Ceriodaphnia Dana, 1853 (Cladocera: Daphnidae) from Eastern Siberia (Russia) that combines morphological features of two species groups, pp. 247-270 in Zootaxa 5284 (2) on pages 259-264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7923314 ...