Redescription of Bythotrephes arcticus Lilljeborg, 1901 (Crustacea:Cladocera: Onychopoda) and confirmation of an independent species status of the distant Transcaucasian populations of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Author: KOROVCHINSKY, NIKOLAI M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2016
• Subjects: Crustacea; taxonomic revision; type material; geographical distribution; ice ages; possible extinction; Yenisei River; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4138.2.2; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.2

Two species of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig, B. arcticus Lilljeborg and B. transcaucasicus Behning, forming a group of close species, are redescribed on the basis of type material and other materials from Northern Eurasia. They were investigated with the application of detailed morphological analys...