Polycopidae

Polycopidae is a family of marine ostracods. Its members are related to animals in the suborder Halocypridina, but are sufficiently distinct to be placed in their own sub-order, Cladocopina. There is speculation that a separate order may be warranted.[1] The genera in the family differ from the other suborder, Halocypridina, in several features: the central adductor muscle scars are in a triangular (3 scars) or half-rosette (15 scars) pattern, they lack sixth and seventh limbs, and the maxilla (=fourth limb) has both an exopod and endopod (the maxilla in the Halocypridina lacks an exopod).[2][3][4][5]

Halocyprida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Ostracoda
Subclass:
Myodocopa
Order:
Halocyprida
Suborder:
Cladocopina

Sars, 1865 [1]
Superfamily:
Polycopoidea

Sars, 1865
Family:
Polycopidae

Sars, 1865

The following genera are included:[6]

  • Archypolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Axelheibergella Briggs, 1997
  • Chavturopsis Bonaduce & McKenzie, 2004
  • Eupolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Hexopolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Hyphalocope I. Karanovic & Brandão, 2012
  • Metapolycope Kornicker & van Morkhoven, 1976
  • Micropolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Orthopolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Parapolycope Klie, 1936
  • Parapolycopissa Chavtur, 1981
  • Polycope G. O. Sars, 1866
  • Polycopetta Chavtur, 1981
  • Polycopiella Chavtur, 1981
  • Polycopinna Chavtur, 1981
  • Polycopissa Chavtur, 1981
  • Polycopsis G. W. Mueller, 1894
  • Pontopolycope Chavtur, 1981
  • Pseudopolycope Chavtur, 1981

References
  1. Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132.
  2. L. S. Kornicker & T. M. Iliffe (1989). "Ostracoda (Myodocopina, Cladocopina, Halocypridina) mainly from anchialine caves in Bermuda" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 475: 1–88. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.475.
  3. L. S. Kornicker & T.M. Iliffe (1992). "Ostracoda (Halocypridina: Cladocopina) from anchialine caves in Jamaica, West Indies" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 530: 1–72. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.530.
  4. L. S. Kornicker & T.M. Iliffe (1995). "Ostracoda (Halocypridina: Cladocopina) from an anchialine lava tube in Lanzarote, Canary Islands" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 568: 1–32. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.568.
  5. L. S. Kornicker & T.M. Iliffe (1998). "Myodocopid Ostracoda (Halocypridina, Cladocopina) from anchialine caves in the Bahamas, Canary Islands, and Mexico" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 599: 1–93. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.599.
  6. "Polycopidae". Retrieved March 15, 2013.


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