Subfamily Isocypridinae Rome, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isocypridinae Rome, D.R. 1965. Crustacea: Ostracoda. pp. 9-58 in Hanström, B., Brinch, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell Vol. 11. [32].

  Type genus:

   Isocypris G.W. Müller, 1908.
• Platicypridinae Hartmann, G. & Puri, H.S. 1974. Summary of neontological and paleontological classification of Ostracoda. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 70: 7-73 [65] [junior objective synonym of Isocypridinae Rome, 1965].

  Type genus:

   Platycypris Herbst, 1957.

Introduction

The subfamily comprises the genera Isocypris Muller, Amphibolocypris Rome, 1965 and Platicypris Herbst, 1957.

Diagnosis

Medium size, laterally compressed carapace. Valves translucent, thin and fragile. Posterior margin of each valve with two conspicuously long setae. Anterior and antero-ventral marginal zone with septa formed by excrescences of fused zone. Terminal segment of maxillular palp distally enlarged. Terminal claw of walking leg very long. Uropodal ramus strongly developed, curved and with two almost equally long terminal claws.

Diagnosis References

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [363]

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