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Chlamydotheca

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.

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Chlamydotheca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Cyprididae
Subfamily: Cypridinae
Genus: Chlamydotheca
(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, 19863
  • 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 llanoensis4
References

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.
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