Family THAUMATOCYPRIDIDAE Müller, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thaumatocyprididae Müller, G.W. 1906. Ostracoda. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899. Vol. 8. 27-154 pp. [41].

Introduction

The family includes three living genera.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

THAUMATOCYPRIDIDAE: Danielopolina Kornicker & Sohn, 1976 — Iglikowska, A. & Boxshall, G.A. 2013. Danielopolina revised: Phylogenetic relationships of the extant genera of the family Thaumatocyprididae (Ostracoda: Myodocopa). Zoologischer Anzeiger 252: 469–485

Diagnosis

Carapace small, length less than 2.5 mm; with straight to slightly concave anteroventral margin delimited by terminal protuberance; with or without anterodorsal node on each valve; usually with posterodorsal tubercle on one or both valves; surface smooth, punctate, or reticulate; adductor muscle attachment scars less than 1/5 greatest height. First antenna long with 8 segments; 1st segment with 1 dorsal bristle, or with 1 dorsal and 1 lateral bristle. Each lamella of furca with 2 long anterior claws followed by 3–7 short claws.

ID Keys

A key to genera is provided in Kornicker & Iliffe (1995).

Diagnosis References

Kornicker, L.S. & Iliffe, T.M. 1995. Ostracoda (Halocypridina, Cladocopina) from an anchialine lava tube in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 568(1-31)

Kornicker, L.S. & Sohn, I.G. 1976. Phylogeny, ontogeny, and morphology of living and fossil Thaumatocypridacea (Myodocopa: Ostracoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 219: 1-124 [24]

History of changes