• Cytherideidae Sars, G.O. 1925. Ostracoda. Parts V-X. pp. 73-176 in Sars, G.O. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. 9. [73].

Diagnosis

Valves strongly calcified and firm. Anterior margin broader than posterior. Sculpture different. Fused zone broad. Inner margin and line of concrescence mostly coincide, but sometimes small vestibule may be present. Marginal pore canals densely situated, being simple or branched, but always straight. Normal pore canals of sieve type. Antennula strong and 5-segmented. Antenna with two or more terminal claws. Mandibular palp 3-segmented. Maxillula normal. Walking legs on right body side transformed in males.

History of changes

• Bishopina Bonaduce, G., Masoli, M. & Pugliese, N. 1976. Ostracoda from the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 40: 372-428.

  Type species:

   Bishopina mozarti Bonaduce, Masoli & Pugliese, 1976 (= Miocyprideis mozarti) by original designation.

Introduction

While previously recorded from Australia Bishopina atjehensis (Kingma, 1948) is not included here as it is known from fossils only.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

General References

Kingma, J.T. 1948. Contribution to the knowledge of the young Caenozoic Ostracoda from the Malayan Region. Thesis Univ. Utrech. 1-119 pp. [70] (as Clithrocytheridea atjehensis)

History of changes

• Bishopina spinulosa Brady, G.S. 1868. Contributions to the study of the Entomostraca 2. Marine Ostracoda from the Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 2(7-12): 178-184 [182].

  Type data:

   Lectotype HMN 1.58.39 ♀ carapace (ex slide no. 1.47.10), Mauritius, Indian Ocean.
  Paralectotype(s) HMN 1.58.38 ♂ right valve, same data as Holotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Titterton, R., Whatley, R.C. & Whittaker, J.E. 2001. A review of some key species of mainly Indo-Pacific Ostracoda from the collections of G.S. Brady. Journal of Micropalaeontology 20: 31-44 [37] (as Neocyprideis spinulosa).

Introduction

Titterton et al. (2001) place this species in the genus Neocyprideis, we follow the classification of Howe & Mckenzie (1989) and Brandão et al (2018).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Collected from Darwin, NT; subtropical, west Indo- west Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

General References

Brandão, S.N., Angel, M.V., Karanovic, I., Perrier, V. & Meidla, T. 2017. Bishopina spinulosa (Brady, 1868) Howe & Mckenzie, 1989. World Ostracoda Database. http://www.marinespecies.org/ostracoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=776009 (accessed 3 Jul 2019)

History of changes

• Corallicythere Hartmann, G. 1974. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der afrikanischen Westküste zwischen Angola und Kap der Guten Hoffnung und der afrikanischen Ostküste von Südafrika und Mozambique unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil III. Die Ostracoden des Untersuchungsgebietes. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 69: 229-520.

  Type species:

   Corallicythere verrucosa Hartmann, 1974 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Corallicythere arcanis Behrens, P. 1991. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. I. Families: Cytherellidae, Loxoconchidae, Cytherideidae, Cytheruridae, Paracytherideidae, Pectocytheridae, Krithidae, Cytheromatiidae, Bythocytheridae, Cytheridae. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen 45(1-2): 104-142 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMS P.66061.001 ♂, Cod Hole, Station 33 [outer Great Barrier Reef, QLD].
  Paratype(s) ZMH K-34573 3 ♀, 4 ♂, Lizard Island, Station 26, QLD; ZMH K-34573 10 ♀, 7 ♂, Cod Hole, Station 33 [outer Great Barrier Reef, QLD].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Lizard Island (14°40'S, 145°27'E) and the Cod Hole, outer Great Barrier Reef (14°39'S, 145°39'E)

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Cyprideis Jones, T.R. 1857. A monograph of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England. Palaeontological Society of London 1857: 1-68 [20].

  Type species:

   Candona torosa Jones, 1850 (=Cyprideis torosa (Jones, 1859)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Valves rounded, hinge tripartite, median element bipartite; surface smooth to ornamented with pits and/or nodes. Medial seta on fourth segment of antennula very small (1/10–1/5 of length of terminal segment). Exopodite on antenna 3-segmented. Asymmetry of first male thoracic leg very strong, with large subquadrate terminal segments on right first leg.

Diagnosis References

Wouters, K. & Martens, K. 1999. Four new species of the Cyprideis species flock (Crustacea: Ostracoda) of Lake Tanganyika. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 69: 67-82 [71]

History of changes

• Cyprideis australiensis Hartmann, G. 1978. Teil 1. Die Ostracoden der Ordnung Podocopida G. W. Müller der tropisch-subtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Perth im Süden). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 75: 63-219 [85].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH K30614 ?, Australia, Western Australia, Geraldton, mouth of the Greenough River.
  Paratype(s) ZMH K30611-30613 ?, Australia, Western Australia, Geraldton, mouth of the Greenough River.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known from Geraldton, WA, and from Gulf of Carpentaria, NT, to Lizard Island (14°41'S, 145°27'E), northeast of Cairns, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: brackish water.

General References

Behrens, P. 1991. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. I. Families: Cytherellidae, Loxoconchidae, Cytherideidae, Cytheruridae, Paracytherideidae, Pectocytheridae, Krithidae, Cytheromatiidae, Bythocytheridae, Cytheridae. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen 45(1-2): 104-142 [115]

History of changes

• Cyprideis westraliensis McKenzie, K.G. 1978. Ostracoda (Crustacea, Podocopida) from southern Australian salt lakes, with the description of Reticypris new genus. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 102(7): 175-190 [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P26650 ♂, Australia, Western Australia, Lake Preston.
  Paratype(s) AM P26651 2♀, 1♂, Australia, Western Australia, Lake Preston.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Collected from Lake Preston and Lake Cooloongup, south of Perth, WA

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lake.

History of changes