Genus Paranesidea Maddocks, 1969

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paranesidea Maddocks, R.F. 1969. Revision of Recent Bairdiidae (Ostracoda). United States National Museum Bulletin 295: 1-126 [39].

  Type species:

   Paranesidea fracticorallicola Maddocks, 1969 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Carapace with broadly arched dorsal part, and more or less concave anterodorsal and posterodorsal segments, punctate; anterior and posterior margins of right valve spinose, of left valve frilled; muscle scar pattern with 8 or more subcircular scars compactly arranged rosette-fashion. Antenna with distal claw smooth, anterodistal seta thin, fused claw serrate, branchial plate of first thoracopod with 4 unfeathered setae segregated proximally, of equal or diminishing lengths; caudal ramus with 6 setae, setae 5 and 6 much shorter than others; copulatory organ massive, with strongly chitinised conical or digitiform distal projections, copulatory tube stout and nearly straight.

Diagnosis References

Maddocks, R.F. 1969. Revision of Recent Bairdiidae (Ostracoda). United States National Museum Bulletin 295: 1-126 [39]

History of changes