On a New Host Record of Alitropus typus (Crustacea : Isopoda : Aegidae) and a New Record from a Freshwater River System of West Bengal

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Authors

  • Santanu Mitra
     Crustacea Section, Zoological Survey of India, F. P. S. Building, 27 J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata–700016 ,IN
  • M. K. Dev Roy
     Crustacea Section, Zoological Survey of India, F. P. S. Building, 27 J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata–700016 ,IN

Abstract

Alitropus typus was described for the first time by H. Milne Edwards (1840) from Gulf du Bengale (Bay of Bengal). Later on, Stebbing (1911) recorded this species from Shastancotta Lake, a freshwater lake of Kerala. Subsequently, Chilton (1926) and Pillai (1967) reported Rocinella simplex and Alitropus dimorphus from Chilka lake and Travancore (Kerala) respectively. Both the species are now synonymised as Alitropus typus (Bruce, 1983).

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2011-12-01

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Volume 8, Issue 2, December 2011

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Short Communication

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