Scapholeberis kingi Sars 1888
Creators: name: Kotov, Alexey A.
name: Jeong, Hyun Gi
name: Lee, Wonchoel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Scapholeberis
Scapholeberis kingi

description: 3. Scapholeberis kingi Sars, 1888
Fig. 5
Synonymy. Scapholeberis kingi Sars, 1888, p. 68; Chiang & Du, 1979, p. 145–146, Fig. 97; Dumont & Pensaert 1983, p. 24–25, Fig. 2: 3; Fig. 4: 4; Fig. VI: 1–2; Pl. 1: 8; Pl. 2: 4; Pl. 3: 5, 7, 9; Pl. 4: 1–7; Pl. 5: 1–2, 4; Fig. 10: 3; Pl. 6: 6–8; Fig. 12 Fig. 21: 4; Kotov et al. 2011a, p. 405.
Scapholeberis kingi n.sp. in Sars 1903, p. 8–10, Pl. 1: figs 2a–c.
Scapholeberis rammneri Dumont & Pensaert in Yoon 2010, p. 64–66, Fig. 34.
Type locality. “South Creek and Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia ” (Dumont & Pensaert 1983).
Localities in Korea. 3, 5, 6a–b, 7a–b, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 (see Fig. 1 and Table 1).
Parthenogenetic female. Brownish in colour. Body with dorsal margin interrupted by a cervical incision, postero-dorsal angle well-expressed, posterion margin slightly convex, postero-ventral angle with a strong spine - mucro, which is of 0.2 of valve length (Fig. 5 A). Head rather large, lacking a horn, rostrum trilobate in ventral view (Fig. 5 B), middle lobe with "a hyaline membrane in front" in terminology of Dumont & Pensaert (1983), compound eye very large, occupies distalmost portion of head (Fig. 5 A). A ridge departs from the insertion of the second antenna and extends to the side of the head—seen frontally, it appear as a pair of shallow depressions, "auricles" in terminology of Dumont & Pensaert (1983). An elongate frontal head pore on the rostrum (Fig. 5 B, arrow). Valves with reticulations as vertical lines near the posterior margin. A projection on ventral valve margin before the system of setae located on a flat portion, "sucker-plate" in terminology of Dumont & Pensaert (1983). A broad hyaline membrane extends beyond the posterior valve rim (Fig. 5 –D). Postabdomen slightly widened distally, preanal margin long, preanal angle obtuse, anal margin straight, postanal angle not expressed, postanal margin very short (Fig. 5 E). About 3–5 single postanal teeth, followed by clusters of spinules proximally (on anal margin), numerous series of minute setules laterally (Fig. 5 F). In distal dorsal external pecten 2–4 proximalmost denticles specially strong and sparsely located. First antenna short, with antennular sensory seta and 9 terminal aesthetascs (Fig. 5 G). Antenna II long, antennal formula: setae 0-1-3/1-1-3 (Fig. 5 H). Limb I as shown in Fig. 5 I. Other limbs not studied. Size in our material 0.5–1.0 mm.
Notes. According to Dumont & Pensaert (1983), this taxon is distributed in Australia, SE Asia, India, Middle East and Africa. It is known from the Far East of Russia (Kotov et al. 2011b), China (Chiang & Du 1979) and Japan (Mizuno & Takahashi 1991), so its presence in Korea was expected. Yoon (2010) described S. mucronata (O. F. Müller, 1776) and S. rammneri Dumont & Pensaert, 1983 from Korea, but we did not see these species in our samples. Probably this author misidentified S. kingi as S. rammneri. Unfortunately, descriptions and illustrations by Kim (1988), Kim & Yoon (1987) and Yoon (2010) do not allow us to assign their " S. mucronata " to any species, because most taxonomically important characters were not mentioned.
description: Published as part of Kotov, Alexey A., Jeong, Hyun Gi & Lee, Wonchoel, 2012, Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of the south-east of the Korean Peninsula, with twenty new records for Korea *, pp. 50-90 in Zootaxa 3368 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214313