Cyprididae

Cyprididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Suborder: Cypridocopina
Superfamily: Cypridoidea
Family: Cyprididae
Baird, 1845
Not to be confused with Cyprinidae, a family of fish.

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] Many Cyprididae occur in temporary water bodies and have drought-resistant eggs, mixed/parthenogenetic reproduction and ability to swim. These biological attributes pre-adapt them to form successful radiations in these habitats.[3] Bennelongia is an interesting genus of the family Cyprididae. It may be the last true descendent genus of the Mesozoic (and now extinct) lineage of Cypridea, which was a dominant lineage of ostracod in non-marine waters in the Cretaceous.[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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Koen Martens, Isa Schön, Claude Meisch & David J. Horne (2008). Estelle V. Balian, Christian Lévêque, Hendrik Segers & Koen Martens, ed. "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment". Hydrobiologia. Developments in Hydrobiology (Springer) 198: 185–193. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9245-4. ISBN 978-1-4020-8258-0. |chapter= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ D. J. Horne & K. Martens (1998). "An assessment of the importance of resting eggs for the evolutionary success of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)". In Luc Brendonck, Luc de Meester & Nelson Hairston. Evolutionary and ecological aspects of crustacean diapause. Advances in Limnology 52. E. Schweizerbart. pp. 549–561. ISBN 978-3-510-47054-9.

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