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.[2]

Chlamydotheca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Ostracoda
Order:
Podocopida
Family:
Cyprididae
Subfamily:
Cypridinae
Genus:
Chlamydotheca

de Saussure, 1858[1]
Type species
Takecallis arundicolens
Mastumura, 1917
Diversity
About 36 species

Taxonomy

Once classified as Chlamydotheca australis is now accepted as a synonym for Bennelongia australis.

Species
  • Chlamydotheca azteca de Saussure, 1858
  • Chlamydotheca elegans Roessler, 1986[3]
  • 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 llanoensis† [4]

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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