Metacypris Brady & Robertson 1870
Description
“ Metacypris ” pintoi Krömmelbein, 1965
Fig. 8, 5a–c
1965a “ Metacypris ” pintoi n. sp.—Krömmelbein, p. 199–200, pl. 12, fig. 7.
Diagnosis: A small “ Metacypris ” species with the following peculiarities: posterior cardinal angle clearly defined. Median sulcus fairly narrow, deep, more or less straight, extending far down to over the valve centre. Anterior sulcus short, diagonal. Between the two sulci a flat, more or less longish node-like swelling; a similar swelling, mostly more weakly defined and more rounded, in front of the anterior sulcus. Carapace surface with pore dimples joined together in a mesh-like pattern in the central valve area; with pore dimples arranged in a line against the free valve margins, and separated by narrow little ridges, parallel to the end margins and the ventral margin.
Holotype: Carapace, SMF Xe 5371.
Paratypes: 2 Left valves, SMF Xe 5372.
Dimension: Holotype, length 0.54mm.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SMF
- Scientific name authorship
- Brady & Robertson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Podocopida
- Family
- Limnocytheridae
- Genus
- Metacypris
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metacypris Brady, 1870 sec. Bate, Horne, Horne, Douglas, Miller & Lord, 2022