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Diversity and zoogeography of the fairy shrimps (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) on the Indian subcontinent

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The Indian subcontinent has a specific biogeographical history, but has remained understudied with respect to invertebrates like the Anostraca. In this study, we discuss the anostracan diversity and zoogeography on the subcontinent. We collected all pertinent literature and considered nineteen bioclimatic variables along with altitude and its terrestrial ecoregions. The study area was overlaid with 10,000 km2 grids, and five hundred random GIS data points per grid were extracted for analysis besides the species locality data. Species richness estimators predict at least 3–4 more species to the existing list of 19 species. The beta diversity measure βsim reveals two zoogeographic “zones,” viz., a Northern (NZ) zone and the rest of the subcontinent (RS) comprising the Central (CZ) and South (SZ) zones by Unweighted Pair-Group Method using arithmetic averages clustering and Analysis of Similarity. Complementarity index shows that no fauna is shared between NZ and RS, while CZ and SZ share 50% of the species. Principal Component analysis shows that NZ and RS differ somewhat from one another climatically. NZ and RS have different ecoregions with montane and temperate grasslands commonly observed in NZ while the latter comprising tropical forests, implying differences in soil geochemistry which is crucial for anostracan distribution.

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SMP thanks Sanjay Molur and Wildlife Information Liaison Development society for their support. MRK thanks the CSIR for a research fellowship. Authors also thank Christopher Rogers for providing some of the anostracan literature.

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  1. Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641035, India

    Sameer M. Padhye

  2. Department of Biodiversity, Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road, Pune, 411004, Maharashtra, India

    Sameer M. Padhye

  3. Department of Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

    Mihir R. Kulkarni

  4. Biology Department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Henri J. Dumont

  5. Department of Ecology and Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

    Henri J. Dumont

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Padhye, S.M., Kulkarni, M.R. & Dumont, H.J. Diversity and zoogeography of the fairy shrimps (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) on the Indian subcontinent. Hydrobiologia 801, 117–128 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3122-6

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