Subfamily Cypridininae Baird, 1850

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• Cypridininae Baird, 1850.

Diagnosis

Carapace variable, smooth in most genera, but ornate in others; incisure always present, but more highly developed in some genera than others; upper margin of incisure never overlapping lower margin proximally; posterior either evenly rounded or with caudal process, or developed into siphonlike process; male without vertical row of lateral hairs near posterior. First antenna: 2nd segment without bristles; b- and c-bristles of 7th segment on male with suckers. Second antenna: bristle on 2nd segment of exopod with 5 or more spines along ventral margin; 9th segment of exopod with 3 or 4 bristles; endopod in female 1–3-segmented. Fifth limb: outer lobe of 3rd segment with 2 bristles. Upper lip: undivided or divided into unpaired anterior part and paired posterior part; anterior part with 0–2 anterior processes; posterior paired part with 0–2 pairs of short to long tusks; anterior and posterior parts as well as tusks provided with glandular openings. Furca: each lamella with 4–14 claws.

Diagnosis References

Kornicker, L.S. 1975. Antarctic Ostracoda (Myodocopina), Parts 1 & 2. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 163: 1-720 [85]

General References

Brady, G.S. & Norman, A.M. 1889. A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of Northwestern Europe. Section I: Podocopa. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 4(2): 63-270

Karanovic, I & Laperousaz, T 2009. Two new species of the subfamily Cypridininae (Myodocopa, Ostracoda) from South Australia. Marine Biodiversity 39(4): 16

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