Chlamydotheca

Chlamydotheca
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Cyprididae
Subfamily: Cypridinae
Genus:
(de Saussure, 1858)[1]
Type species
Takecallis arundicolens
Mastumura, 1917
Diversity
About 36 species

Chlamydotheca is a genus of freshwater ostracods in the family Cyprididae. About 36 species are known to occur throughout continental waters. Four species are found in Argentina.[2]

Taxonomy

Once classified as Chlamydotheca australis is now accepted as a synonym for Bennelongia australis.

Species

  • Chlamydotheca azteca de Saussure, 1858
  • Chlamydotheca elegans Roessler, 1986[3]
  • Chlamydotheca incisa Claus, 1892
  • Chlamydotheca barbadensis Sharpe, 1910
  • Chlamydotheca unispinosa (Baird, 1862)
  • Chlamydotheca iheringi (Sars, 1901) Klie, 1931
  • Chlamydotheca incisa (Claus, 1982)
  • Chlamydotheca leuckarti
  • Chlamydotheca symmetrica
  • Chlamydotheca arcuata (Sars, 1901)
  • Chlamydotheca llanoensis[4]

References

  1. ^ Mémoire sur divers Crustacés nouveaux du Mexique et des Antilles. H Saussure, 1858
  2. ^ "The genus Chlamydotheca Saussure (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in northeastern Argentina" (PDF). Nauplius Journal. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. ^ E Roessler, 1986, Caldasia, 14, (68-70), pages 617-650
  4. ^ Pierce, Harold G. (1988). "Chlamydotheca llanoensis n. sp.: a large ostracode from the latest Pleistocene of the Southern High plains, useful in correlation of streamside Paleo-Indian sites". Journal of Paleontology. 62 (3): 445–447. doi:10.1017/S0022336000059230.