Genus Thaumatoconcha Kornicker & Sohn, 1976

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• Thaumatoconcha 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 [35].

  Type species:

   Thaumatoconcha radiata Kornicker & Sohn, 1976 by original designation.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Between 32ºN and 73ºS at depths of 150–4758 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Carapace with ridges restricted to anteroventral surface of carapace; short anteroventral protuberances crudely reticulated; 1st antenna with 2 bristles on 1st segment; rod-shaped organ well developed.

 

Diagnosis References

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 [36]

 

General References

Kornicker, L.S. 1992. Thaumatoconcha pix, a new bathyal and abyssal species from off SE Australia (Ostracoda: Halocyprida: Taumatocyprididae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(2): 233-239 [233]

 

History of changes

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