Genus Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889

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• Scottia 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.

  Type species:

   Scottia pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971 by designation under Plenary Powers, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1996. Opinion 1836. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(2): 130 [130].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Victoria
• New Zealand

Diagnosis

Carapace ovate in both lateral and dorsal view. Fused zone on both valves relatively broad and with numerous marginal pore canals. Left valve overlaps right one ventrally. Second thoracopod 5-segmented, one of the setae on terminal segment (seta h3) transformed into long claw. Caudal ramus strongly developed, symmetrical.

 

Diagnosis References

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [366]

 

General References

De Deckker, P. 1983. Terrestrial Ostracods in Australia. pp. 87-100 in Lowry, J. Papers from the Conference on the Biology and Evolution of Crustacea. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 18 [95]

Martens, K., De Deckker, P. & Rossetti, G. 2004. On a new terrestrial genus and species of Scotiinae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Australia, with a discussion on the phylogeny and the zoogeography of the subfamily. Zoologischer Anzeiger 243: 21-36 [24]

Meisch, C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Heidelberg, Berlin : Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Gmbh. Vol. 8/3 pp. 1-522. [366]

 

History of changes

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