Published November 25, 2025 | Version v1
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Schellencandona Meisch 1996

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
  • 2. CNR-IGAG, Area della Ricerca di Roma 1, 00015 Montelibretti (RM), Italy
  • 3. Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38098 S. Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy & NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133, Italy

Description

Genus Schellencandona Meisch, 1996

Diagnosis of the genus Schellencandona (modified after Meisch 1996, 2000)

Carapace small, 0.4–0.6 mm long. Valves trapezoidal, subtrapezoidal, triangular or reniform, in some species LV and RV strongly asymmetrical in lateral view. Valves smooth or with shallow pits. Eye pigment absent. Male antenna dimorphic: penultimate segment subdivided and with male bristles (t2 and t3-bristles transformed). Setal group on the second segment of the mandibular palp with three setae; externo-distal seta (gamma-seta) of the penultimate segment smooth. Mx respiratory (branchial) plate with two setae. Cleaning leg: basal segment (protopod) with two setae (d1 and dp); penultimate segment with one distal seta (seta g); terminal segment with one short (h1) and two long setae (h2 and h3). Zenker organ with four+two rings of spines. M-process of the penis very flat.

Notes

Published as part of Rossetti, Giampaolo, Mazzini, Ilaria & Bruno, Maria Cristina, 2025, On the occurrence of the genus Schellencandona (Ostracoda, Candonidae) in Italy, with the description of a new species, pp. 189-208 in Zootaxa 5723 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17893105

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Meisch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Podocopida
Family
Candonidae
Genus
Schellencandona
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Schellencandona Meisch, 1996 sec. Rossetti, Mazzini & Bruno, 2025

References

  • Meisch, C. (1996) Contribution to the taxonomy of Pseudocandona and four related genera, with the description of Schellencandona nov. gen. a list of the Candoninae genera, and a key to the European genera of the subfamily (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois, 97, 211-238.
  • Meisch, C. (2000) Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. In: Schwoerbel, J. & Zwick, P. (Eds.), Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa 8 / 3. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 1-522.