Discovery of Parastenocarididae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) in India, With the Description of Three New Species of Parastenocaris Kessler, 1913, From the River Krishna at Vijayawada)

First representative of the genus Allocyclops Kiefer, 1932 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from the Australian subterranean waters

“…That is an obvious Gondwana connection, and that is why we probably need to continue using the subgeneric division of the genus Allocyclops. The subgenus Psammocyclops is still unknown on the Indian subcontinent, but the subterranean freshwaters there still await serious investigation (Ranga Reddy 2001). Hopefully, the continuing studies of the Australian subterranean waters will result in finding more representatives of this interesting taxon and contribute to our better understanding of its zoogeography and the zoogeography of the subterranean animals in general.…”

Two new subterranean Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Western Australia

“…Representatives of this genus are distributed over all continents, although, interestingly they have never been recorded in New Zealand (Huys and Boxshall1991). Recently, Ranga Reddy (2001) reported the first Parastenocarididae from the Indian subcontinent (three new species of Parastenocaris), hardly surprising considering more than 20 species already known from Asia, including six of them from Sri Lanka (Enckell 1970). The taxonomic impediments surrounding the genus Parastenocaris was recently discussed by Galassi and De Laurentiis (2004), who also proposed a list of phylogenetically informative characters for this genus an the family as a whole.…”

“…I prefer to wait for that revision instead of using sensu stricto and sensu lata terms, because they provide no real advancement to our knowledge on this complex taxon. Besides P. brevipes, which is the only member of the genus with a Holarctic distribution (see Lang 1948;Reid 1995), 16 species have been described so far in the "brevipes"-group: five of them from Sri Lanka by Enckell (1970) [P. brincki, P. irenae, P. lanceolata, P. noodti and P. singhalensis]; four from the United States by Pennak (1939), Borutzky (1952), Whitman (1984) and Reid (1991) [P. starretti, P. wilsoni, P. texana and P. palmerae respectively]; three from Japan by Miura (1962Miura ( , 1969 and Kikuchi (1970) [P. oshimaensis, P. biwae and P. hinumaensis respectively]; two from India by Ranga Reddy (2001) [P. gayatri and P. savita]; one from China by Shen and Tai (1973) [P. longipoda]; and one from Sumatra by Chappuis (1931) [P. feuerborni]. Parastenocaris biwae, P. starretti and P. wilsoni were consequently synonymized with P. brevipes by Reid (1995), who also recognized "the possible origin of the brevipes-group in tropical Asia".…”

Philippiphonte aspidosoma gen. et sp. n., a radically divergent member of the Laophontidae from shell gravel in the East Sea, South Korea, including a review of Folioquinpes Fiers & Rutledge, 1990 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)

“…Mayyazhi (Mahé) and Karaikal, along the southwestern and southeastern coasts of the Indian peninsula, respectively. Folioquinpes chathamensis has recently been recorded from the middle and/or lower reaches of the River Godavari and River Krishna in Andhra Pradesh (Jayaram 1995; Ranga Reddy 2001, 2014; Ranga Reddy and Schminke 2009a–b; Ranga Reddy and Totakura 2010; Totakura et al 2016). These hyporheic freshwater records, all from the east coast of India, most likely refer to F. indicus .…”