Subfamily Cyprinotinae Bronstein, 1947

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyprinotinae Bronstein, Z.S. 1947. Faune de l'URSS. Crustacés, vol. 2, num. 1: Ostracodes des eaux douces. Moscow : Zoologicheskiy Institut Akademie Nauk SSSR. Vol. 2. [135].

  Type genus:

   Cyprinotus Brady, 1886.

Introduction

This is a cosmopolitan subfamily. It comprises the genera Cyprinotus Brady, 1886; Heterocypris Claus, 1892; Hemicypris Sars, 1903 and Homocypris Sars, 1924. De Deckker (1981) placed his monospecific genus Alboa De Deckker, 1981 in this subfamily, but according to Karanovic (2007), this genus belongs in to the subfamily Eucypridinae.

For references see De Deckker 1981a, and Karanovic (2007).

Members of the group are found in freshwater.

Diagnosis

Carapace usually relatively stout, rarely elongate in lateral view, about 1–2 mm long. Dorsal margin usually distinctly arched, never straight. Valves usually asymmetrical. One of valves with marginal tubercles. Caudal ramus well developed, always with both claws and setae. Posterior seta distinctly displaced from posterior claw.

Diagnosis References

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [344]

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