A new member of the subgenus Sinobosmina Lieder, 1957: Bosmina tripurae spnov (Crustacea, Cladocera) from India

A new species, Bosmina tripurae is described from South India. The species shares some of the morphological traits with Bosmina fatalis from East and SE Asia, and two other species described recently from North America. They all form a subgeneric group established earlier: subgenus Sinobosmina Liede r 1957. Parthenogenetic females of the new species are superficially simila r to the species Bosmina longirostris, which occurs on Indian subcontinent, only in northern high mountain lakes. All reports of the latter species fr om Indian lowlands are either Bosmina tripurae or some other not yet descri bed species.