Family CANDONIDAE Kaufmann, 1900

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• Candonidae Kaufmann, A. 1900. Cypriden und Darwinuliden der Schweitz. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 8: 209-423.

  Type genus:

   Candona Baird, 1845.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartmann, G. & Puri, H.S. 1974. Summary of neontological and paleontological classification of Ostracoda. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 70: 7-73 [58]
• Meisch, C. 1996. Contribution to the taxonomy of Pseudocandona and four related genera, with the description of Schellencandona nov. gen., a list of the Candoninae genera, and a key to the European genera of subfamily (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois 97: 211-237
• Martens, K., Horne, D.J. & Griffiths, H.I. 1998. Age and diversity of non-marine ostracods. pp. 37-55 in Martens, K. (ed.). Sex and Parthenogenesis: Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-marine Ostracods. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers. [50, 51]
• Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522.

Introduction

The family Candoninae Kaufmann, 1900 has three subfamilies: Candoninae Kaufmann, 1900; Paracypridinae Sars, 1923; and Cyclocypridinae Kaufmann, 1900. Representatives inhabit all kinds of environments. The family has the second largest non-marine radiation with probably around 600 species worldwide. All three subfamilies have representatives in Australia, the most diverse subfamily being the Candoninae.

Diagnosis

The valves are exceedingly varied in form and size. The calcification is more or less strong. The adductor muscle scars on carapace consist of one elongate scar, beneath which is an anterior row of three scars and a posterior row of two scars. The hinge is simple without teeth. The antennula has maximum of 7 segments; males usually with sexual bristles dividing penultimate segment on the antenna. Protopods of the first thoracopod in males transformed into prehensile palps. The second thoracopod has only one terminal claw. The terminal segment of the third thoracopod well developed and with three setae. The caudal ramous with one or no posterior seta. Zenker's organ with no more than 8 rows of spines.

Diagnosis References

Hartmann, G. & Puri, H.S. 1974. Summary of neontological and paleontological classification of Ostracoda. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 70: 7-73 [58]

Kaufmann, A. 1900. Cypriden und Darwinuliden der Schweitz. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 8: 209-423

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