“…Some parts of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra possess unique and interesting habitats in the form of rocky outcrops (Widdowson and Cox, 1996;Jog et al, 2002) which are generally known to host rich large branchiopod fauna (Pinder et al, 2000;Timms 2006;Brendonck et al, 2010;Jocque et al, 2010). Despite these facts, ecological and distributional studies on the large branchiopod in these parts of Ghats and surrounding areas are rare to the best of our knowledge, with only a few published reports (Pai, 1958;Karande and Inamdar, 1959, 1960, 1964Padhye et al, 2011aPadhye et al, , 2011bPadhye et al, , 2015.…”