Potamocypris

Potamocypris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Ostracoda
Order:	Podocopida
Family:	Cyprididae
Subfamily:	Cypridopsinae
Genus:	Potamocypris; Brady, 1870

Potamocypris is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in the family Cyprididae. There are currently 44 extant species of Potamocypris.^[1] The majority of the species occur in freshwater habitats; only a few species of the genus (e.g., Potamocypris steueri) colonize marine brackish coastal waters.^[2]

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References[edit]

^ Meisch, C.; Smith, R.J.; Martens, K. (2019). "A subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 492: 1–135.
^ Meisch, C., 1984. Revision of the Recent Western Europe species of genus Potamcypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Part 1: Species with short swimming setae on the second antennae. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg 3: 1-55.

External links[edit]

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[1] Meisch, C.; Smith, R.J.; Martens, K. (2019). "A subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 492: 1–135.

[2] Meisch, C., 1984. Revision of the Recent Western Europe species of genus Potamcypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Part 1: Species with short swimming setae on the second antennae. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg 3: 1-55.

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