A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)

Abstract

We present a subjective list of the Recent, free-living, non-marine ostracods species and genera of the world, with their distribution in the large zoogeographical regions, as well as a list of genera in their present hierarchical taxonomic position. Based on the recognised synonymies, there are at present about 2090 species in c. 209 genera. About half of all species occur in one family, the Cyprididae, which is especially common in the southern Hemisphere. We give three new names for extant homonyms (Cypretta bradyi nom. nov., Cypria kliei nom. nov. and Physocypria dadayi nom. nov.), propose one new combination and one new synonymy and elevate the rank of the tribe Mytilocypridini to that of subfamily (with the same diagnosis).

Dynamics of ostracod populations from shallow lakes of Patagonia: life history insights

“…Nevertheless, it has already been mentioned for Lake Los Juncos in the extant fauna (Gilbert 2012;Ramón Mercau et al 2012). Our study is the first record of T. lutaria in the Neotropical region (Martens and Savatenalinton 2011). There is no fossil record for this species in Patagonia therefore we might hypothesize a recent colonization.…”

On some Recent non-marine ostracods from northern China, with description of one new species

“…Distribution.-This species is currently known from both the Palaearctic and the Oriental Regions (Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011). Previous records in China were restricted to the southern provinces (Yu et al, 2009), and this is the first record in the Palaearctic part of the country.…”

“…F Müller, 1776), Heterocypris incongruens (Ramdohr, 1808), Limnocythere inopinata (Baird, 1843), L. stationis Vâvra, 1891, Physocypria kraepelini G. W. Müller, 1903 and Plesiocypridopsis newtoni (Brady & Robertson, 1870)) have been recorded from various other parts of the world and display wide geographical distribution (Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011), some of them have been rarely, or not at all found in China before. For example, previous data indicated that P. kraepelini is widespread across Eurasia and North America (Meisch, 2000;Yu et ah, 2005Yu et ah, , 2010Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011), but it was not known from the Chinese territory north of Qinling Mountain (i.e., the Palaearctic part of China) until this study. The present study also presents the first reports of B. vittata, /.…”

“…More than 90 years after the pioneering work of Sars (1903), only 47 living species were recorded from China (Yin & Martens, 1997). A total of 154 species were included in the checklist of Yu et al (2009), of which only 94 were considered to be "living" (Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011). Recent works, such as Wrozyna et al (2009), Mischke et al (2010), and Yu et al (2010), recorded more species (mostly as subfossil material) that are new for China.…”

A review of the Entocytheridae (Ostracoda) of the world: updated bibliographic and species checklists and global georeferenced database, with insights into host specificity and latitudinal patterns of species richness

“…Moreover, the GBIF online resource only included 44 entocytherid occurrences hitherto, mainly corresponding to sampling localities of specimens preserved in Museum collec tions (e.g., National Museum of Natural History, Australian Museum). Another example of the reduced attention paid to the entocytherids by most ostracodologists are recent reviews of the world non-marine ostracod fauna that only con sider free-living ostracods (Martens et ah, 2008;Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011), disregarding this commensal group, or describing it in a very succinct way (e.g., Karanovic, 2012).…”