Genus Limnocythere Brady, 1867

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• Limnocythere Brady, G.S. 1867. A Synopsis of the Recent British Ostracoda. The Intelectual Observer 12(2): 110-130 [121].

  Type species:

   Cythere inopinata Baird, 1843 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

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Diagnosis

Carapace elongate in lateral view, conspicuously sexually dimorphic (carapace of male longer and more elongate than in the female). In dorsal view anterior end often beak-shaped; left valve overlapping RV posteriorly. Valves often with more or less developed tubercles. Marginal pore canals unbranched. Hemipenis with 3 uropodal setae, lower ramus consisting of lateral process and prominent, hook-shaped process; upper ramus either reduced to elongate tentacle or completely absent, movable trabecule.

 

Diagnosis References

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [426]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Nov-2020	CYTHEROCOPINA Baird, 1850	30-Nov-2020	MOVED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED