A report on freshwater tailless flea, Simocephalus vetulus from Haridwar, located in foothills of Shivalik Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India
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The Cladocerans, commonly known as “Water fleas” form a primitive freshwater group of micro crustacean zooplankton of the freshwater ecosystem. They play an important role in the aquatic food chain and also contribute significantly to zooplankton dynamics and secondary productivity in freshwater ecosystems. The animals used in the present study were identified as
Simocephalus vetulus with the help of identification keys described by various authors in the previous studies from other parts of India. In the present study, the occurrence of “freshwater tailless flea”, S. vetulus (Crustacea- cladocera) is reported for the first time from freshwater bodies in Haridwar, located in foothills of Shivalik Himalayan region in Uttarakhand. The presence of S. vetulus “tailless water flea” will be helpful as a lab model for the health status of aquatic bodies as well as environmental monitoring.
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Biodiversity, Crustacea, Simocephalus vetulus, Tailless water flea
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Brehm, (1936). Yale North India Expedition. Report on Cladocera. Article XVI. Meln. Conn. A cad, Arts. Sci., 10: 283-297.
Brehm, V. (1950). Contribution to the freshwater fauna of India, Part I & II. Records of the Indian Museum, 48(1-3): 9-28.
Chandrasekhar, S. V. A. and Chatterjee, T. (2003). On a collection of Cladocera from Dimna and Jublee park lakes, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Zoos' Print Jour., 18(4): 1089-1090.
Davis, L., Ford, P. (1992). Toxicity reduction evaluation and control. Technomic Publishing Company Inc.
Freitas, E. and Rocha, O. (2010). Acute toxicity tests with the tropical Cladoceran Pseudosida ramosa: The importance of using native species as testoOrganisms. Archi. Environ. Contamin. Toxicol., 60(2):241-9. DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9541-2.
Green, J. (2009). Variation in carotenoid pigmentation of Simocephalus vetulus (Crustacea: Cladocera). J. of Zool., 149(2):174–187. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1966.tb03 892.x.
Michael, R. G. and Sharma, B. K. (1988). Fauna of India, Indian Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
Mishra, A., Shukla, S. and Chopra, A. K. (2016a). Acute toxicity of copper sulphate and potassium chromate to “tailless freshwater flea”, Simocephalus vetulus (Crustacea-Cladocera). Inter. J. Adv. Res., 4(6): 316-321. DOI:10.21474/IJAR01/648.
Mishra, A., Shukla, S. and Chopra, A. K. (2016b). Physiological responses of heart of tailless fresh water flea Simocephalus vetulus (Crustacea-cladocera) under copper sulphate stress). CIBTech J. Zool., 5(3): 52-59.
Mishra, A., Shukla, S. and Chopra, A. K. (2018). Effect of heavy metal, copper sulphate and potassium chromate on behaviour of “Tailless water flea” Simocephalus vetulus (Crustacea - Cladocera). Journal of Applied and Natural Science., 10 (1): 507–517. DOI:10.31018/jans.v10i1.1659.
Nasar, S. A. K. (1977). The zooplankton fauna of Bhagalpur (Bihar) II. Cladocera. Carcinological Society of Japan. Researches on Crustacea, No.8:32-36.
Nayar, C.K.G. (1971). Cladocera of Rajasthan. Hydrobiologia., 37 : 509-519.
Rumes, B., Eggermont, H. and Verschuren, D. (2011). Distribution and faunal richness of Cladocera in western Uganda crater lakes. Hydrobiologia, 676(1):39-56. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0829-7.
Sadeq, S. A. and Beckerman, A. P. (2019). The chronic effects of copper and cadmium on Life History Traits Across Cladocera Species: A Meta-analysis. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 76(1): 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s00244-018-0555-5.
Sharma, B. K. (1978). A note on Freshwater cladocerans from West Bengal. Bangladesh J. Zool., 6: 149-151.
Sharma, B. K. and Sharma, S. (2001). Contributions to the cladoceran fauna (Crustacea: Branchiopoda:Cladocera) of Bihar. Rec. Zool. Surv. India: 99 (Part 1-4): 31-43.
Sharma, V., Verma, B. K., Sharma, R., Sharma, M. S. and Gaur, K. S. (2012). A report on the freshwater Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of south Rajasthan (India). International Jour. of Environ. Sci., 3(1): 275-296. DOI:10.6088/ijes.2012030131027.
Smirnov, N. N. (2014). Physiology of the cladocera. Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier., pp-196. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396953-8.00002-1.
Thakur, A. and Kocher, D. K. (2017). Diversity and density of cladoceran population in different types of water bodies of Ludhiana, Punjab (India). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(3): 1568-1572.
Venkataraman, K. (2003). Crustacean Zooplankton of Damodar River. Rec. Zool. Surv. India: 101 (Part 1-2): 209-229.
Yousuf, A. R. and Qadri, M. Y. (1977). Cladocera of Malpur Sar, Kashmir. J. Sci. Univ. Kash., 3: 87-92.
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A report on freshwater tailless flea, Simocephalus vetulus from Haridwar, located in foothills of Shivalik Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India. (2020). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 12(3), 438-441. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v12i3.2351
