Potamocypris variegata Smith & Lee & Chang 2014
Authors/Creators
- 1. Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan;
- 2. Marine Ecosystem Research Division, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ansan, Korea;
- 3. Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences, Daegu University, Gyeongsan, Korea
Description
Potamocypris variegata (Brady and Norman, 1889)
(Figure 8G, H)
Cypridopsis variegata Brady and Norman, 1889
Potamocypris variegata (Brady and Norman, 1889) nov. comb. Daday 1900
Remarks
This species has a wide, probably Holarctic distribution (see review of distribution in Meisch 2000), but this is the first report from north-east Asia. It is often found in stagnant and slow flowing waters with dense vegetation (Meisch 2000). During our surveys, Potamocypris variegata was found at only one locality (locality 35), in the lower reaches of a river.
Previously, Kim and Min (1991a) reported Potamocypris mastigophora (Meuthuen, 1910) (as Potamocypris producta (Sars, 1924)) from Jeju Island. Their specimens were ‘severely damaged’ by formalin, and they noted that they were unable to illustrate their specimens in detail (Kim and Min 1991a). Their species determination therefore remains questionable, but as their specimens have five spine-like setae on the final segment of the maxillula (in contrast to four in P. variegata), they are clearly a different species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith & Lee & Chang
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Podocopida
- Family
- Cyprididae
- Genus
- Potamocypris
- Species
- variegata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Potamocypris variegata Smith, 2014 sec. Smith, Lee & Chang, 2014
References
- Brady GS, Norman AM. 1889. A monograph on the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and northwestern Europe. Section I: Podocopa. Sci Trans Roy Dublin Soc Ser. 2: 63 - 270.
- Daday E. 1900. Mikroskopische Susswasserthiere aus Deutsch-Neu-Guinea. Termeszetrajzi Fuz. 24: 1 - 56.
- Meisch C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Berlin: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg; 522 pp.
- Kim W, Min GS. 1991 a. Redescription of four recent freshwater ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Korea. Korean J Zool. 34: 307 - 322.
- Meuthuen PA. 1910. On a collection of freshwater Crustacea from the Transvaal. Proc Zool Soc Lond. 1910: 148 - 166.
- Sars GO. 1924. The fresh-water Entomostraca of the Cape Province (Union of South Africa). Part 2: Ostracoda. Ann S Afr Mus. 20: 105 - 193.