Cyprididae

Cyprididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Cyprididae
Baird, 1845

Cyprididae is "the most diverse group of freshwater ostracods".[1] It contains 1000 species, which represents 50% of the known species of freshwater ostracods (other speciose families include Candonidae, with 25%, and Limnocytheridae, with 10%).[2] Around 60% of genera in the family are endemic to a single zoogeographic region.[2] The family contains 25 subfamilies, and is most diverse in the Afrotropic ecozone, with over 300 species in 45 genera.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Robin J. Smith, Horst Janz & Ichiro Okubo (2011). "Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake's ostracod fauna" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa 2874: 1–37. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02874p037f.pdf. 
  2. ^ 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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