• Pectocytheridae Hanai, T. 1957. Studies on Ostracoda from Japan. I. Subfamily Leptocytherinae n. subfam. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo Section II 10(3): 431-468.

History of changes

• Keijia Teeter, J.W. 1975. Distribution of Holocene Marine Ostracoda from Belize. In: Wantland, K.F. & Pusey, W.C. (Eds.), Belize Shelf-Carbonate Sediments, Clastic Sediments, and Ecology. Studies in Geology 2. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa. pp. 400–499.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Keijia australis Yassini, I., Jones, B.G.& Jones M.R. 1993. Ostracods from the Gulf of Carpentaria, northeastern Australia. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 73(2): 375-406 [392].

  Type data:

   Holotype CPC 30166 left valve, Gulf of Carpentaria, [QLD].
  Paratype(s) CPC 30167 2 RV, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known from central Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25)

History of changes

• Aenigmocythere hirundo Bonaduce, G., Masoli, M. & Pugliese, N. 1976. Ostracoda from the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 40: 372-428 [380].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown 299 Left valve (BCM Ostracod Collection no.299), Red Sea, Eilat, Station n. 2.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown 300 4 loose valves (BCM Ostracod Collection n.300), same data as Holotype.

Generic Combinations

• Keijia hirundo (Bonaduce, Masoli & Pugliese, 1976). —
  Behrens, P. 1991. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. I. Families: Cytherellidae, Loxoconchidae, Cytherideidae, Cytheruridae, Paracytherideidae, Pectocytheridae, Krithidae, Cytheromatiidae, Bythocytheridae, Cytheridae. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen 45(1-2): 104-142 [113] (synonymised Aenigmocythere Bonaduce, Masoli & Pugliese, 1976 with Keijia Teeter, 1975)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Lizard Island (14°41'S, 145°27'E), northeast of Cairns, QLD, and possibly Lake Illawarra, NSW (see Behrens, 1991)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Keijia nordaustraliae Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005731 ♂ carapace, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005732 ♀ carapace, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Darwin, NT, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Kotoracythere Ishizaki, K. 1966. Miocene and Pliocene ostracodes from the Sendai area, Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 37: 131-163 [151].

  Type species:

   Kotoracythere abnorma Ishizaki, 1966 (extinct) by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Cythere inconspicua Brady, G.S. 1880. Report on the Ostracoda dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876: Zoology Vol 1. 1-184 pp. [70].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 81.5.22 whole carapace (155 fathoms), Stat. 185, Torres' Straits [QLD] [11°35'25"S, 144°03'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Puri, H.S. & Hulings, N.C. 1976. Description of lectotypes of some ostracods from the Challenger Expedition. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 29: 251-315 [278].

Generic Combinations

• Kotoracythere inconspicua (Brady, 1880). —
  Titterton, R., Whatley, R.C. & Whittaker, J.E. 2001. A review of some key species of mainly Indo-Pacific Ostracoda from the collections of G.S. Brady. Journal of Micropalaeontology 20: 31-44 [31] (changed combination)
• Morkhovenia inconspicua (Brady, 1880). —
  Teeter, J.W. 1975. Distribution of Holocene Marine Ostracoda from Belize. In: Wantland, K.F. & Pusey, W.C. (Eds.), Belize Shelf-Carbonate Sediments, Clastic Sediments, and Ecology. Studies in Geology 2. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa. pp. 400–499 [435] (changed combination)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Torres Strait and Lizard Island, northeast of Cairns, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Behrens, P. 1991. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. I. Families: Cytherellidae, Loxoconchidae, Cytherideidae, Cytheruridae, Paracytherideidae, Pectocytheridae, Krithidae, Cytheromatiidae, Bythocytheridae, Cytheridae. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen 45(1-2): 104-142 [113] (as Morkhovenia inconspicua)

History of changes

• Labutisella Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [37].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Labutisella curta Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005747 ♀ carapace, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM various on assemblage slide (no register number given), same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Darwin, NT

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Labutisella darwinensis Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005742 ♂ right valve, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005743 ♀ carapace, same data as Holotype; NTM Cr.005797 ♀ carapace, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Darwin, NT, and Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Labutisella interrupta Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005744 ♂ carapace, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005745 ♀ carapace, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Darwin, NT

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Labutisella quadrata Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005746 ♀ right valve, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM various on assemblage slide (ne register number given), same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Collected from Darwin, NT, and Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Mckenziartia Bentley, C. 1988. Podocopid Ostracods of Brisbane Water, Near Sydney, South-Eastern Australia. pp. 439-448 in Hanai, T., Ikeya, N. & Ishizaki, K. Evolutionary biology of ostracoda: its fundamentals and applications - Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy Tokyo : Kodansha (Elsevier) Vol. 11 pp. iii-xvi, 3-1356. [445].

  Type species:

   Mckenziartia portjacksonensis Mckenzie, 1967 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Mckenziartia bentleyi Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005736 ♂ carapace, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005737 carapace, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Darwin, NT, and from the Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Pectocythere foveata Hartmann, G. 1978. Teil 1. Die Ostracoden der Ordnung Podocopida G. W. Müller der tropisch-subtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Perth im Süden). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 75: 63-219 [144, pl. 14, figs 12-13].

Generic Combinations

• Keijia foveata (Hartmann, 1978). —
  Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [32] (changed combination)
• Mckenziartia foveata (Hartmann, 1978). —
  Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [133] (changed combination cited)

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Port Hedland, WA, Darwin, NT, Lizard Island (14°41'S, 145°27'E), northeast of Cairns, QLD, and lake Illawarra, NSW

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Behrens, P. 1991. Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. I. Families: Cytherellidae, Loxoconchidae, Cytherideidae, Cytheruridae, Paracytherideidae, Pectocytheridae, Krithidae, Cytheromatiidae, Bythocytheridae, Cytheridae. Helgolaender Meeresuntersuchungen 45(1-2): 104-142 [114] (as Keijia foveata)

Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [133, Fig. 2G-I, 3G, 4B]

History of changes

• Mckenziartia mowbrayi Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [136, Fig. 2E-F, J-L and Fig. 4D].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P37639 ♂ carapace, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°09'00”S 151°33'00”E].
  Paratype(s) AM P37640-P37643 4 specimens, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°09'00”S 151°33'00”E]; CPC 26553 1 specimen, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°09'00”S 151°33'00”E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Hemicytheridea portjacksonensis McKenzie, K.G. 1967. Recent Ostracoda from Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 80(1): 61-106 [85, pl. 12, figs 3i-j, 6].

Generic Combinations

• Mckenziartia portjacksonensis (McKenzie, 1967). —
  Bentley, C. 1988. Podocopid Ostracods of Brisbane Water, Near Sydney, South-Eastern Australia. pp. 439-448 in Hanai, T., Ikeya, N. & Ishizaki, K. Evolutionary biology of ostracoda: its fundamentals and applications - Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy Tokyo : Kodansha (Elsevier) Vol. 11 pp. iii-xvi, 3-1356. [447] (changed combination as type species of the genus Mckenziartia)

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

General References

Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [133, Fig. 2A-D, 4A]

History of changes

• Parakeijia territoriae Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005733 ♀ carapace, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005734 ♂ carapace, same data as Holotype; NTM 6 carapaces on assemblage slide (no register number given), same data as Holotype.

Generic Combinations

• Mckenziartia territoriae (Howe & McKenzie, 1989). —
  Yassini, I., Jones, B.G.& Jones M.R. 1993. Ostracods from the Gulf of Carpentaria, northeastern Australia. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 73(2): 375-406 [380]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Darwin, NT, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes

• Parakeijia Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [32].

  Type species:

   Parakeijia territoriae McKenzie, 1989 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

History of changes

• Mckenziartia thomi Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P37646 ♂ RV, Lake Macquarie entrance tidal channel, NSW, Australia [33°03'00"S, 151°38'00"E].
  Paratype(s) AM P37647-37650 numerous, same data as Holotype; CPC 26554, same data as Holotype.

Generic Combinations

• Parakeijia thomi (Yassini & Mikulandra, 1989). —
  Webber, W.R.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford-Grieve, J.M.; Eagar S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, J.B.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, M.A.; Olesen, J.; Ho, J.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. pp. 98-232 in Gordon, D.P. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Christchurch : Canterbury University Press Vol. 2 pp.7-528. [217] (changed combination cited)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Broken Bay and Lake Macquarie, NSW, and Heron Island, QLD (see Yassini & Mikulandra, 1989: 136)

History of changes

• Pectocythere Hanai, T. 1957. Studies on the Ostracoda of Japan. II. Subfamily Pectocytherinae, new subfamily. Journal of the Faculty of Science of the Hokkaido Imperial University Section II 10: 469-482 [471].

  Type species:

   Pectocythere quadrangulata Hanai, 1957 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Pectocythere royi Yassini, I. & Mikulandra, M. 1989. Mckenziartia and Pectocythere (Pectocytheridae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 131-139 [138, Fig. 3H-K and Fig. 4E].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P37661, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°03'00”S 151°38'00”E].
  Paratype(s) AM P37662-P37664 3 specimens, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°03'00”S 151°38'00”E]; CPC 26555 1 specimen, Lake Maquarie, NSW [33°03'00”S 151°38'00”E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in estuaries along the NSW coast (see Yassini & Mikulandra, 1989).

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Praemunita Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [36].

  Type species:

   Pectocythere broomensis Hartmann, 1978 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

History of changes

• Pectocythere broomensis Hartmann, G. 1978. Teil 1. Die Ostracoden der Ordnung Podocopida G. W. Müller der tropisch-subtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Perth im Süden). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 75: 63-219 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH K30849 ♀, Broome, WA, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Praemunita broomensis (Hartmann, 1978). —
  Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [36] (changed combination as type species of the genus Praemunita)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from Port Hedland, WA, to Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD.

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Praemunita capeyorkiana Yassini, I., Jones, B.G.& Jones M.R. 1993. Ostracods from the Gulf of Carpentaria, northeastern Australia. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 73(2): 375-406 [392].

  Type data:

   Holotype CPC 30143 right valve, Accident Inlet [north of Karumba, QLD].
  Paratype(s) CPC 30144 2 right valves, same data as Holotype; SMF Xe 17073 3 left valves, 2 complete, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from the Gulf of Carpentaria, north of Karumba, QLD

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25)

History of changes

• Praemunita hartmanni Howe, H.V. & McKenzie, K.G. 1989. Recent marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Darwin and north-Western Australia. Monograph series of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 1-50 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.005739 ♂ left valve, Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.005740 19 carapaces on assemblage slide, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Darwin, NT

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

History of changes