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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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1 Crustacea Section, Zoological Survey of India, F. P. S. Building, 27 J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata–700016, India
     

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

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).