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Freshwater bryozoans are First record of Hislopia malayensis the representatves of periphytc Annandale, 1916 (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata) or aufwuch community. They from freshwaters of India ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) grow on underwater substrata ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) which may be living or nonliving. Ananta Dnyanoba Harkal 1 & Bryozoan colonies have multple Satsh Sumanrao Mokashe 2 OPEN ACCESS subunits, known as zooids. In India Annandale (1911), Rao (1992) and 1 Department of Zoology, New Arts, Commerce and Science College, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra 414001, India Shrivastava (1981) made signifcant 2 Department of Zoology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada contributon to this fascinatng University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra 413004, India 1 phylum but further studies are obligatory to understand [email protected], 2 [email protected] (corresponding author) the real picture of diversity, distributon and the ecology of bryozoans in India. Class Gymnolaemata includes fve freshwater families (1900’N & 74034’E) Ahmednagar District and Mombata from which the family Hislopiidae is represented by a Lake (19057’N & 75015’E) of Aurangabad District single genus, Hislopia, with seven described species. Till Maharashtra State, India. All kinds of hard submerged date, only Hislopia lacustris Carter, 1858 and Hislopia substrata were examined and colonies were observed monoliformis Annandale, 1907 have been documented under binocular dissecton microscope in live conditon. from India. This is the frst report on the occurrence of The colonies were also maintained in the laboratory Hislopia malayensis Annandale, 1916 from the fresh as described by Wood (2005) for observing growth waters of India. Formerly the species was only reported paterns. from Thailand by Annandale (1916) and Wood et al. Result and Discussion: The species is identfed by the (2006), as well as from Cambodia by Hirose & Mawatari descripton provided by Annandale (1916) and Wood et (2007). It was initally described by Annandale (1916) al. (2006). The colonies are fat and zooids radiate in all from a small lake near Yala in Patani Province, Thailand directons. Zooids are broadly oval, with a wide zone of where collectons were made in 1901. Again in 2006 contact between the daughter zooids. The old zooids Wood et al. (2010) collected it from the same locality. are brownish in color while the newly formed ones are Wood et al. (2006) reported it again from several sites transparent (Image 1B). Unlike H. lacustris spines are across Thailand and described it as the “most frequently absent around the opening of zooid, the orifce and encountered freshwater bryozoan in Thailand”. the presence of distal expansion (Image 1C–E), which Material and Methods: The colonies were collected later on develops as a daughter zooid. This expansion from Visapur Dam (19032’N & 74052’E) and Mula Dam is a transparent tube, which later starts expanding from

DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3400.10.10.12432-12433 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CCF70CCE-36A8-461B-A42A-C07ED5FD986F

Editor: Timothy S. Wood, Wright State University, Ohio, USA. Date of publicaton: 26 September 2018 (online & print)

Manuscript details: Ms # 3400 | Received 08 March 2017 | Final received 07 September 2018 | Finally accepted 10 September 2018

Citaton: Harkal, A.D. & S.S. Mokashe (2018). First record of Hislopia malayensis Annandale, 1916 (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata) from freshwaters of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(10): 12432–12433; htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3400.10.10.12432-12433

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Acknowledgements: We are thankful to the University Grants Commission (UGC) for providing a grant under MRP and Prof. Timothy Wood, Right State University, USA for providing the literature.

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Image 1. A - colony of Hislopia malayensis on glass; B - zooids of H. malayensis; C–H - shows the development of new zooid through the distal tube and subsequently backward expansion

the tp and moves back towards the parental zooid variaton and exact number of species in the genus. This (Image 1F–H). The distal expansion has a ball like cell report points out the need to undertake further studies mass, becomes spindle-shaped, which possibly forms on the diversity and distributon of these fascinatng all the internal organs of the daughter zooid during the animals in India. development. This distal expansion with spines absent around the orifce of the zooids are the diagnostc References characters of H. malayensis (Annandale 1916; Wood Annandale, N. (1911). Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids and Polyzoa, et al. 2006). In a fully grown colony, the digestve tract Fauna of Britsh India. Taylor and Francis, London, 161–238pp. is of safron color, with milky white peristome and a Annandale, N. (1916). Zoological results of a tour in the Far East. transparent ectocyst. Polyzoa, Entoprocta and Ctenostomata. Memoirs of the Asiatc Society of Bengal 6: 15–37, pl. 1, 2. The colonies are abundant at all sites especially Hirose, M. & S.F. Mawatari (2007). Freshwater Bryozoa of Tonle Sap, at Mula Dam where each and every submerged Cambodia. Zoological Science 24: 2723–2729. substratum, even the plastc boat used to catch fsh is Rao, K.S. (1992). Freshwater Ecology (Bryozoa). Anmol Publicaton, New Delhi, 308pp. densely covered by the colonies. They are observed on Shrivastava, P. (1981). Swarupella new genus ectoprocta rocks, twigs, plastc botles glass (Image 1A), and clothes Phylactolaemata from India. Bioresearch (Ujjain) 53–56. H. lacustris Wood, T.S. (2005). Study methods for freshwater Bryozoan. Denisia present in the water like , which is a common 28: 103–110. freshwater bryozoan across several sites of Maharashtra Wood, T., P. Anurakpongsatorn & J. Mahujchariyawong (2006). State. Freshwater bryozoans of Thailand (Phylactolaemata, Gymnolaemata and Entoprocta). The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn Conclusion: According to Timothy S. Wood (pers. University 6(2): 81–117. comm. 2015) there is no serious work on this genus Wood, T., P. Anurakpongsatorn & J. Mahujchariyawong (2010). An and one has to understand the phenotypic plastcity and Introducton to the Freshwater Bryozoans of Thailand. Kasetsart University Press, Thailand, 142pp. molecular taxonomy amongst the species to know the

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Communicatons Inventory of prong-gilled mayfies (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) of India with records of endemic taxa Urban biodiversity: an insight into the terrestrial vertebrate diversity of -- C. Selvakumar, Kailash Chandra & K.G. Sivaramakrishnan, Pp. 12389–12406 Guwahat, India -- Jayaditya Purkayastha, Pp. 12299–12316 First record of a coreid bug Anhomoeus fusiformis Hsiao (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae: Anhomoeini) from India Status of raptors in the Moyar River Valley, Western Ghats, India -- Sadashiv V. More & Hemant V. Ghate, Pp. 12407–12412 -- N.R. Anoop, S. Babu, S. Bharathidasan & R. Nagarajan, Pp. 12317–12327 The gilled mushroom Amanita spissacea (Amanitaceae): a new report for India Species compositon and abundance estmates of reptles in selected -- Hmar Lalrinawmi, John Zothanzama, Benjamin W. Held, agroecosystems in southern Western Ghats, India Josiah M.C. Vabeikhokhei, Zohmangaiha & Robert A. Blanchete, -- Abhirami Mini Jayakumar & Paingamadathil Ommer Nameer, Pp. 12328–12336 Pp. 12413–12417

Comparison of beach profles conducive for turtle nestng in Andaman -- Subramanian Narayani, Sasidharan Venu & Andrea Joan D’Silva, Pp. 12337 Notes –12343 Foraging habits of the Red Fox Vulpes vulpes (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae) in the Himalaya, India Short Communicatons -- Aishwarya Maheshwari, Pp. 12418–12421

A new record of the rare Hardwicke’s Woolly Bat Kerivoula hardwickii First record of Yellow-Rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia (Hay, 1845) (Horsefeld, 1824) (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertlionidae) afer 23 years (Aves: Passeriformes: Muscicapidae) in eastern India from a lowland rainforest of Sri Lanka -- Manaranjan Das & Subrat Debata, Pp. 12422–12424 -- Dinesh Gabadage, Gayan Edirisinghe, Madhava Botejue, Kalika Perera, Thilina Surasinghe & Suranjan Karunarathna, Pp. 12344–12349 Additonal feld records provide further resoluton of the distributon of the Water Monitor Varanus salvator (Squamata: Varanidae) in northwestern Alarming populaton status of the Grizzled Giant Squirrel Ratufa macroura Myanmar (Mammalia: Rodenta: Sciuridae) in Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, -- Steven G. Plat, Myo Min Win & Thomas R. Rainwater, Pp. 12425–12428 the Western Ghats, India -- Kiran Thomas & Paingamadathil Ommer Nameer, Pp. 12350–12356 The frst record of The Blue Admiral Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) from Bangladesh Distributon and populaton status of Sambar Rusa unicolor (Mammalia: -- Amit Kumer Neogi, Md Jayedul Islam, Md Shalauddin, Anik Chandra Mondal & Cetartodactyla: Cervidae) from Aravalli landscape with Safayat Hossain, Pp. 12429–12431 a note on its frst record from Aravalli Hills of Haryana, India -- Paridhi Jain, Anchal Bhasin, Gautam Talukdar & Bilal Habib, Pp. 12357–12362 First record of Hislopia malayensis Annandale, 1916 (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata) from freshwaters of India Delayed peracute capture myopathy in a Himalayan Ibex Capra sibirica -- Ananta Dnyanoba Harkal & Satsh Sumanrao Mokashe, Pp. 12432–12433 (Mammalia: Cetartodactyla: Bovidae) -- Umar Nazir Zahid, Latef Mohammad Dar, Umar Amin, Showkat Ahmad Shah, An extended distributon record of Western Ghats species Litsea oleoides Rashid Yahya Naqash, Dil Mohammed Makhdoomi, Shayuaib Ahmad Kamil & (Meissn.) Hook.f. (Lauraceae) from Matheran, Maharashtra, India Intesar Suhail, Pp. 12363–12367 -- Radha Veach & Gurumurthi Hegde, Pp. 12434–12438

Checklist of the avifauna of Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra, India Notes on Jasminum andamanicum N.P. Balakr. & N.G. Nair (Oleaceae) from -- Sharad Dat Apte, Vijay Bhagwan Tuljapurkar & Girish Avinash Jathar, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India Pp. 12368–12375 -- P. Murugan & K. Karthigeyan, Pp. 12439–12441

The rediscovery of Rurk’s Cat Skink Ristella rurkii Gray, 1839 (Reptlia: Ristellidae) with remarks on distributon and natural history Miscellaneous -- Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh, Pp. 12376–12381 Natonal Biodiversity Authority Member Dietary assessment of fve species of anuran tadpoles from northern Odisha, India -- Syed Asrafuzzaman, Susmita Mahapatra, Jasmin Rout & Gunanidhi Sahoo, Pp. 12382–12388

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