Genus Cypridopsis Brady, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypridopsis Brady, G.S. 1867. A Synopsis of the Recent British Ostracoda. The Intelectual Observer 12(2): 110-130 [117].

  Type species:

   Cypris vidua O.F. Müller, 1776 (=Cypridopsis vidua (O.F. Müller, 1776)) by subsequent designation, see 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.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria

Diagnosis

Carapace ovate in both lateral and dorsal views: height and width approximately equal to 1/2 of length. Left valve slightly longer than right valve, overlapping it ventrally. Posterior marginal zone of left valve with well-developed oblique double inner list, this list close to selvage on right valve. Terminal segment of maxillular palp cylindrical. Caudal ramus triangular. Female genital fold with chitinous plates.

 

Diagnosis References

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [371]

 

General References

Karanovic, I. 1999. On Pseudocypridopsis n. gen., with redescription of Pseudocypridopsis clathrata (Klie, 1936) and a first description of the male (Ostracoda, Cypridopsinae). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 17(1): 1-6 [1]

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [372]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED