Potamocypris

Potamocypris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Cyprididae
Subfamily: Cypridopsinae
Genus: Potamocypris
Brady, 1870

Potamocypris is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in the family Cyprididae. There are currently 42 extant species of Potamocypris.[1] The majority of the species occur in freshwater habitats; only a few species of the genus (e.g., Potamocypris steueri) colonize marine brackish coastal waters.[2]

Species

  • Potamocypris alveolata
  • Potamocypris arcuata
  • Potamocypris bituminicola
  • Potamocypris bowmani
  • Potamocypris brachychaeta
  • Potamocypris chelazzii
  • Potamocypris comosa
  • Potamocypris dadayi
  • Potamocypris deflexa
  • Potamocypris dorsomarginata
  • Potamocypris elegantula
  • Potamocypris fallax
  • Potamocypris fulva
  • Potamocypris gibbula
  • Potamocypris humilis
  • Potamocypris hummelincki
  • Potamocypris illinoisensis
  • Potamocypris insularis
  • Potamocypris islagrandensis
  • Potamocypris koenikei
  • Potamocypris lobata
  • Potamocypris mastigophora
  • Potamocypris narayanani
  • Potamocypris ombrophila
  • Potamocypris pallida
  • Potamocypris paludum
  • Potamocypris philotherma
  • Potamocypris problematica
  • Potamocypris reticulata
  • Potamocypris saskatchewanensis
  • Potamocypris schubarti
  • Potamocypris similis
  • Potamocypris smaragdina
  • Potamocypris steueri
  • Potamocypris stewarti
  • Potamocypris sudzukii
  • Potamocypris unicaudata
  • Potamocypris variegata
  • Potamocypris villosa
  • Potamocypris worthingtoni
  • Potamocypris zschokkei

References

  1. ↑ Martens, Koen; Savatenalinton, Sukonthip (29 April 2011). "A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)". Zootaxa. 2855: 1–79.
  2. ↑ Meisch, C., 1984. Revision of the Recent Western Europe species of genus Potamcypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Part 1: Species with short swimming setae on the second antennae. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg 3: 1-55.
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