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Heterocypris punctata Keyser 1975

  • 1. Laboratorio de Limnología, Instituto de Biología Experimental (IBE), Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Caracas 1040, Venezuela. Laboratorio de Ecología de Sistemas Acuáticos, Línea de Investigación del Plancton, Instituto de Ecología y Zoología Tropical (IZET), Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Caracas 1053, Venezuela.
  • 2. State University of Maringá (UEM), Centre of Biological Sciences (CCB), Centre of Research in Limnology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture (Nupélia). Av. Colombo, 5790. Maringá, PR, Brazil.
  • 3. Tecnológico Nacional de México-I. T. Chetumal., Av. Insurgentes 330, Chetumal, 77013 Quintana Roo, México.
  • 4. Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Centro del Agua y Desarrollo Sustentable, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Km. 30.5, Vía Perimetral, Guayaquil 090101, Ecuador. & Departamento de Biología, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Avenida Universidad, Sector Grano de Oro, Maracaibo 4005, Venezuela.

Description

Heterocypris punctata Keyser 1975

Heterocypris punctata — Broodbakker 1982: 223–224, table I–II, fig. 1, 6C–D, 8B, 8F–G, 9F–G, 10E; H. punctata — Broodbakker 1983b: 122–124, table IV; H. punctata — Broodbakker 1984a: 30, 32, table I.

Synonym: Manuelcypris punctata (Keyser 1975) Yoo et al. 2017.

Type locality: Marco Island, Florida, United States (25º57’45” N, 81º43’45” W). Holotype — ZMH, K–30332.

In Venezuela: at the following localities according to Broodbakker (1982, 1983b, 1984a): SUCRE State —WH 1936/?, Chacopata, Araya Peninsula (GN 10º40’37” N, 63º49’05” W). LA BLANQUILLA Island—S 1982/08b, open pit dug in clay, probably permanent, no locality details (GN 11°50’57” N, 64°36’06” W).

Remarks: geographical distribution of the species includes the Caribbean Islands, such as Antigua and Barbuda, Martinique, St. Kitts, St. Martin, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos, United States (Florida), Venezuela (Broodbakker 1982, 1983b), Guatemala (Pérez et al. 2010), and Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) (Cohuo et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Scott-Frías, Joxmer, González, Ernesto, Pardo, María José, Torres, Rubén, Higuti, Janet, Cohuo, Sergio & López, Carlos, 2023, An updated checklist of recent non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Venezuela, pp. 485-512 in Zootaxa 5369 (4) on page 496, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10144821

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References

  • Keyser, D. (1975) Ostracoden aus den Mangrovegebieten von S ¸ dwest-Florida (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopa). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, 18 / 19, 255 - 290.
  • Broodbakker, N. W. (1982) The genus Heterocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in the West Indies. Part I. Taxonomic characters. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 52 (2), 207 - 227. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 26660644 - 05202012
  • Broodbakker, N. W. (1983 b) The genus Heterocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in the West Indies Part II. Carapace length, ecology and zoogeography. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 53 (1), 115 - 134. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 26660644 - 05301010
  • Broodbakker, N. W. (1984 a) The distribution and zoogeography of freshwater Ostracoda (Crustacea) in the West Indies, with emphasis on species inhabiting wells. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 54 (1), 25 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 26660644 - 05401003
  • Yoo, H., Cohuo, S., Macario-Gonzalez, L. & Karanovic, I. (2017) A new freshwater ostracod genus from the northern Neotropical region and its phylogenetic position in the family Cyprididae (Podocopida). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 266, 196 - 215. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2016.09.003
  • Perez, L., Lorenschat, J., Brenner, M., Scharf, B. & Schwalb, A. (2010) Extant freshwater ostracodes (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lago Peten Itza, Guatemala. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 58 (3), 871 - 895. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 58 i 2.5252
  • Cohuo, S., Macario-Gonzalez, L., Perez, L. & Schwalb, A. (2016) Overview of Neotropical-Caribbean freshwater ostracode fauna (Crustacea, Ostracoda): identifying areas of endemism and assessing biogeographical affinities. Hydrobiologia, 786 (1), 5 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10750 - 016 - 2747 - 1