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Ostracoda

Mikroconchoecia

AphiaID

1078 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1078)

Classification

Authority

Latreille, 1802

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Oligostraca

Direct children (1)

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Subclass Ostracoda incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 2:382 p., XV pls.
page(s): 558; note: "Ostrachoda" "Ostrachodes" [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase (2025). Ostracoda. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1078 on 2025-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2005-05-04 07:42:17Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-11-27 17:53:41Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

2012-06-28 11:09:19Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

2013-07-22 10:37:26Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

2015-05-05 09:47:59Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

2016-05-19 09:31:12Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

Licensing

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original description Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 2:382 p., XV pls.
page(s): 558; note: "Ostrachoda" "Ostrachodes" [details]

redescription Hartmann, G. (1975). Ostracoda. In: Gruner, H (ed.). Dr. H.G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Fünfter Band: Arthropoda. I. Abteilung: Crustacea. 2. Buch, IV. Teil. 4. Lieferung. Seite 569-768. Textabbildungen 374-474.Akademiche Verlaggesellschaft Geest & Portig K.-G. Veb Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Mikroconchoecia

Holotype of the deep-sea Abyssocythere bensoni Brandão, Stuhlmann, Vital & Brandt, 2016 (ostracod)

Ostracods: examples

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Trachyleberididae (Family) - Henryhowella from the Southern Ocean

Cylindroleberididae

Bythocypris

Myodocopina (Suborder) Sarsielloidea (Superfamily) Philomedidae (Family)

Platycopida (Order) Platycopina (Suborder) Cytherelloidea (Superfamily) Cytherellidae (Family) Cytherella

Cylindroleberidinae

Macrocypria sarsi

Cypridocopina (Suborder) Macrocypridoidea (Superfamily) Macrocyprididae Macroscapha

Bathyconchoecia

Halocyprididae - Bathyconchoecia sp.

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Trachyleberididae (Family) Pseudobosquetina

Platycopina (Suborder) Cytherelloidea (Superfamily) Cytherellidae (Family) Cytherella

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Bythocytheridae (Family) Vitjasiella

Bairdiocopina (Suborder) Bairdioidea (Superfamily) Bythocyprididae (Family) Bythopussela brandtae Brandão, 2008

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Trachyleberididae (Family) Legitimocythere

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Trachyleberididae Dutoitella

Metapolycope divae Karanovic & Brandão, 2012

Bythocyprididae

Legitimocythere

Zabythocypris

Bairdiocopina Bythocyprididae Zabythocypris

Bairdocopina Bairdioidea Bythocyprididae Zabythocypris

Cytherocopina Trachyleberididae Dutoitella dinglei Brandão et al., 2016

Lectotype of Cythere sulcatoperforata Brady, 1880

Paralectotype of Cythere dasyderma Brady, 1880

Limbs of Poseidonamicus yasuharai Brandão & Päplow, 2011

Ostracoda - Morphology of a typical ostracod (Horne, 2005)

Ostracoda - "Morphology of a ostracod: internal valve morphology and limbs of a cytheroidean podocopid" (Horne, 2005)

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Cytheruridae (Family) Pelecocythere

Cytherocopina (Suborder) Cytheroidea (Superfamily) Cytheruridae (Family) Cytheropteron

Holotype of Poseidonamicus tainae Brandão in Brandão & Päplow, 2011

Cytherocopina Cytheroidea Thaerocytheridae - Holotype of Poseidonamicus tainae Brandão in Brandão & Päplow, 2011

Cytherocopina, Thaerocytheridae - Poseidonamicus collected from the deep Southern Ocean during the ANDEEP II expedition

Pelecocythere

Conchoecissa imbricata female

Ostracod hinge types (from Yamaguchi, 2019: Fig. 2)