Genus Hemicytherura Elofson, 1941

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• Hemicytherura Elofson, O. 1941. Zur Kenntnis der marinen Ostracoden Schwedens, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Skagerraks. Uppsala Universitets Zoologiska Bidrag 19: 215-534 [314].

  Type species:

   Cythere cellulosa Norman, 1865 (=Hemicytherura cellulosa (Norman, 1865)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

In lateral view subrectangular to subtriangular, in dorsal view valves considerably laterally depressed. Anterior end oblique and almost straight in upper part, acutely rounded in ventral half. Posterior end generally with pronounced subcentral to subdorsal caudal process. Surface covered with reticulation of coarse pits. Prominent ventral ridge also present. Inner lamella wide anteriorly. Marginal pore canals characteristically arranged in groups of 3 or 4 long pore-canals. All pore-canals simple. Hinge merodont/entomodont.

Diagnosis References

Morkhoven, van F.P.C.M. 1963. Post-Palaeozoic Ostracoda, their Morphology, Taxonomy and Economic Use. Amsterdam-London-New York : Elsevier Publishing Company Vol. 2 pp. 1-478. [349]

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