First findings of the clam shrimps Leptestheria sars, 1896 and Imnadia Hertzog, 1935 (Crustacea, Conchostraca) in the western foothills of the Stara planina mountains, Serbia

Abstract

During 2004 conchostracans Imnadia and Leptestheria were recorded near the Serbian-Bulgarian border, in the foothills of the Western Stara Planina Mountains. Leptestheria occurred in relatively large density and was presented by adults of both sexes. Imnadia was identified only by resting eggs separated from the pond sediment. This is the first report of genus Imnadia in the Balkans, and also a first record of the second genus in the limnological area of the "Eastern Balkans"

Revision of the extant genera of Limnadiidae (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata)

“…imperf. Imnadiidae Botnariuc and Orghidan, 1941, 1953Marinček and Petrov, 1991b;Miličić andPetrov, 2007 Estheriinidae (Kobayashi, 1954), Novojilov, 1958(not 1957as per Tasch, 1969) Limnadopseidae Novojilov, 1958;Brtek, 1997;Naganawa, 2001Limnadopsioidea Novojilov, 1958Limnadopsidae Tasch, 1969Paraimnadiidae Roessler, 1991bMetalimnadiidae Roessler, 1995Limnadopsinae Dumont and Negrea, 2002 Diagnosis.-Cephalic fornicies not extending anteriorly. Rostrum variable, blunt to acute, long or short.…”

Distribution and conservation status of fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the astatic soda pans of the Carpathian basin: the role of local and spatial factors

“…In Austria, they have been recently studied in depth (e.g., Metz and Forró, 1991;Eder et al, , 1997Gottwald and Eder, 1999;Eder andHödl, 2002, 2003), but their investigation in Serbia began only in the 1970s . Likewise, they have not been surveyed since the 1990s, except for some faunistical notes from the south-eastern part of the country (Miličić and Petrov, 2007). In Hungary, only one investigation has targeted large branchiopods since the 1960s (Boven et al, 2008), and a very few studies included them with new occurrences (e.g., Forró, 1990Forró, , 2003Boros et al, 2006;Horváth and Vad, 2010).…”