Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Bahamian Blue Holes

World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS): a new Thematic Species Database for marine and anchialine cave biodiversity

“…This database has been created by A. Martínez and collaborators, including Thomas M. Iliffe, Brett C. Gonzalez, Diego Fontaneto and Katrine Worsaae, by compiling records published in the literature (e.g., Álvarez and Iliffe 2008, Martínez García et al 2009, Álvarez et al 2015, as well as unpublished field notes from the authors, collected from 1985 to 2016 (Boxshall and Iliffe 1987, Kornicker and Iliffe 1989, Kornicker et al 2002, Schmidt-Rhaesa et al 2013, Rubio et al 2015. The database includes information from marine subterranean environments such as marine marginal caves, anchialine caves, freshwater caves occurring as part of more extensive anchialine systems, artificial wells and anchialine pools (e.g., .…”

On the phylogenetic position of Pseudophilomedinae within Sarsielloidea (Ostracoda, Myodocopida), with a description of one new Harbansus from Ningaloo Reef and redescription of H. paucichelatus from Yucatan

“…The only exception is H. paucichelatus (Fig. 10) which has been collected from several localities in the Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina to Belize , Kornicker et al 2002, at depths of 15 cm to 135 m. The present finding is from Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula), at 1.1 and 1.4 m. The new species is so far the only representative of the genus known from the coral reefs on the west coast of Australia, while another species, H. satteryi, was described from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland (Kornicker 1983). The following species have been described from coral reefs around the world: H. hox from French Frigate Shoals (Kornicker et al 2007a); H. trix and H. ferox from Mayotte coral reef area (Kornicker 1992); H. vix from Enewetak (Kornicker 1991); and H. flax from the Tuléar Reef (Kornicker and Thomassin 1998).…”

On the genus Thaumatoconcha Kornicker and Sohn (Halocyprida) with description of two new species from Southern Ocean deep sea

“…Many of the caves that are today inhabited by anchialine fauna are geologically quite young (2,000-3,000 years). It is a prevailing opinion that the present-day anchialine Thaumatocyprididae originated from ancient epigean fauna that existed in the Tethys Sea at least since the Mesozoic (Iliffe et al 1984;Wilkens et al 1986;Humphreys 1993;Baltanás and Danielopol 1995;Danielopol et al 2000;Kornicker et al 2007). This is supported mostly by the cladistic analysis of the morphological characters (Baltanás and Danielopol 1995;Danielopol et al 2000) and by the presence of two fossil genera Pokornyopsis Kozur, 1974 andThaumatomma Kornicker andDanielopol, 1976 in waters not deeper than 200 m. The carapace shape of the two fossil taxa is indeed very similar to the present-day Danielopolina species, with some differences in the level of calcification and type of ornamentation (see Danielopol et al 2000), but until now no soft body has been found preserved in the fossil record.…”