Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Cat Tien National Park, South Vietnam

Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Vientiane province and municipality, Laos

“…The Asian populations belong to a separate taxon awaiting a formal description; our record might refer to P. quasidenticulatus Smirnov, 1966, having a distinctively short and robust postabdominal claw (Sinev, personal communication), yet this species o n l y also needs redescription. The latter species has also been found in Vietnam (Sinev and Korovchinsky, 2013). Picripleuroxus laevis Sars, 1862 (Fig.…”

“…Korovchinsky (2013a) summarised the available information on the SE Asian cladocerans and concluded that among 297 formal species recorded from SE Asia, only 67 species could be regarded as good, while others are junior synonyms or taxa with unclear or/and unconfirmed status in SE Asia. We believe that the present volume (the FISA Proceedings), will significantly contribute to our knowledge on the SE Asian cladocerans, including new Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Vientiane province and municipality, Laos Korovchinsky (2013a) on the Cladocera of complete SE Asia, by Sinev and Korovchinsky (2013) about Vietnam, and by and about new paludal chydorids of South Thailand. The focus of this particular work is situated in a country where faunistics of the cladocerans remained to be carried out.…”

Inland swamps in South East Asia harbour hidden cladoceran diversities: species richness and the description of new paludal Chydoridae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) from Southern Thailand

“…The same taxon is briefly mentioned (as Karualona sp.) from Vietnam (Sinev and Korovchinsky, 2013). Notoalona Rajapaksa and Fernando, 1987 is a small tropical chydorid genus.…”

Front Matter

“…Alekseev et al (2013) provide a key for Eucyclops in SE Asia, and Van and Van Damme and Sinev (2013) provide new worldwide keys for several cladoceran genera. Kotov et al (2013) and Sinev and Korovchinsky (2013) provide the first thorough and comprehensive faunistics of cladocerans in Laos and Vietnam respectively, as do Papa and Hołyńska (2013) and Alekseev et al (2013) for the cyclopoid copepods of the Philippines and Indonesia, or Sa-ardrit et al (2013) for the rotifers of Thailand. Brancelj et al (2013), and illustrate how attention to micro-crustaceans in unusual habitats (such as epikarst, temporary pools or swamps), are important for our understanding of biodiversity in SE Asia, as these habitats contain truly hidden diversities and endemics.…”

“…The fact that the latter species was discovered coincidentally in a fish farm during a brief N o n c o m m e r c i a l u s e o n l y excursion in the FISA conference, illustrates how useful basic surveys in the region can be for biodiversity assessments and how far we are from a realistic understanding of the true diversity in the region (Rogers et al, 2013). Besides descriptions of new taxa, new morphological notes are provided for several poorly known species in need of revision, as well as new checklists, biogeographical notes, new keys and faunistics, in freshwater sponges (Manconi et al, 2013), copepods (Alekseev et al, 2013;Boonyanusith et al, 2013;Papa and Hołyńska, 2013), cladocerans (Kotov et al, 2013;Korovchinksy, 2013;Sinev and Korovchinsky, 2013;Van Damme and Sinev, 2013), large branchiopods (Rogers et al, 2013), stygobionts Brancelj et al, 2013) and rotifers (Trinh Dang et al, 2013;Saardrit et al, 2013). To many researchers in limnology, these relatively descriptive works may seem as unimportant, yet such basic studies are absolutely necessary and too often forgotten by researchers in applied sciences.…”