Candonidae

Candonidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Candonidae
Kaufmann, 1900

Candonidae is a family of ostracods, containing around 25% of all known species of freshwater ostracods.[1] Around 75% of genera in the family are endemic to a single zoogeographic region.[1] It contains more than 500 species, of which more than 300 are endemic to the Palaearctic ecozone.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Koen Martens, Isa Schön, Claude Meisch & David J. Horne (2008). Global diversity of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in freshwater. In Estelle V. Balian, Christian Lévêque, Hendrik Segers & Koen Martens. "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment". Hydrobiologia. Developments in Hydrobiology (Springer) 198: 185–193. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9245-4. ISBN 9781402082580. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dw4H6DBHnAgC&pg=PA188. 

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