Acanthocyclops vernalis (Fischer, 1853)

Pugh, P. J. A., Dartnall, H. J. G. & McInnes, S. J., 2002, The non-marine Crustacea of Antarctica and the Islands of the Southern Ocean: biodiversity and biogeography, Journal of Natural History 36 (9), pp. 1047-1103 : 1060-1061

Acanthocyclops vernalis (Fischer, 1853)

Cyclops vernalis Fischer, 1853 ; Cyclops viridis de Guerne and Richard, 1889 ; Cyclops Bopsini Stüder, 1878 ( sensu Rühe, 1914 ); Cyclops Krillei Studer, 1878 ( sensu Rühe, 1914 ); Cyclops robustus vernalis (Fischer) ( sensu Smith and Sayers, 1971) ; Acanthocyclops robustus f. vernalis Fischer in Lindberg (1953); Acanthocyclops robustus vernalis Lindberg 1953 ; Acanthocyclope ( sic) vernalis (in: Gay 1982); Acanthocyclops vernalis _Fischer, 1853 _( sic: sensu stricto Dodson, 1994).

Descriptions: Lindberg (1953); Gay (1981a); Fryer (1985); Dodson (1994); Einsle (1996). Listed in: Daday de Dées (1902); Lindberg (1953); Lofthouse (1967); Smith and Sayers (1971); Gay (1982); Duchêne (1989); Vekhov (1993). Recorded from: freshwater lakes and/or pools. Locations: Îles Kerguelen, [S. America, Holarctic— cosmopolitan?]. Note. Fryer (1985), Dodson (1994), Einsle (1996), Ishida (1998) recognize C. vernalis and C. robustus as separate species (cf. Morton, 1985).