Genus Gomphocythere Sars, 1924

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gomphocythere Sars, G.O. 1924. 2. The Fresh-water Entomostraca of Cape Province (Union of South Africa). Ostracoda. Annals of the South African Museum 20(2): 105-193 [174].

  Type species:

   Limnocythere obtusata Sars, 1910 (=Gomphocythere obtusata (Sars, 1910)) by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria

Neotropical Region

Diagnosis

Females with brood pouch. Hinge inverse-lophodont, with posterior cardinal tooth on left valve mostly larger than anterior one. Ventral side of carapace in most species set with ridges. Selvage in both valves inwardly displaced over short distance along anterior, ventral and posterior margins. Calcified inner lamella narrow. Antennula with penultimate segment divided or not, and set with 7 claw-like setae. Third thoracopod longest and most elongate walking limb. Posterior part of female abdomen with one or two caudal complexes each consisting of 2 setae and 3 setose lobes, and dorsally with plump caudal seta and furcal organ. Hemipenis with large, articulating distal lobe, without lateral seta.

 

Diagnosis References

Martens, K. 2003. On the evolution of Gomphocythere (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in Lake Nyassa/Malawi (East Africa), with the description of 5 new species. Hydrobiologia 479: 121-144 [126]

 

General References

Martens, K. 1993. On the taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Gomphocythere Sars, 1924 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with the description of a new species from the Nahal Dan (Israel). Belgian Journal of Zoology 123(1): 39-54 [39]

Martens, K. 2003. On the evolution of Gomphocythere (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in Lake Nyassa/Malawi (East Africa), with the description of 5 new species. Hydrobiologia 479: 121-144 [125]

 

History of changes

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		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED