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Eucandona

Classification

    Phylum:  
Arthropoda
    Subphylum:  
Crustacea (superclass)
    Class:  
Ostracoda
    Order:  
Podocopida
    Suborder:  
Podocopina
    Superfamily:  
Cypridacea
    Family:  
Eucandonidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Eucandona DADAY, 1900
    Type Species:  
Candona balatonica DADAY, 1894, SD Swain, herein


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Fig. 170, 1. "E. balatonica (DADAY) Rec., S.Eu.-W.Asia; 1a, female carapace L; 1b, male carapace L; both X43 (l8). -- Fig. 167,1. E. candida (O.F.MULLER), Rec., Eu.; 1a,b, female carapace L, dors., X40; 1c, LV int., X40; 1d, muscle-scar pattern, X65 (1a-c, 55, 1776; 1d, 40, 1900); 1e-g, female carapace L, R, dors., X40; 1h, male carapace L, X40 (55).


Synonyms

Candona, ?Cyprida


Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm., Trias.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Elongate, medium-sized, subreniform, moderately convex, highest posterior to middle, dorsum strongly arched to nearly straight, venter concave, ends rounded, anterior margin generally narrower than posterior, LV slightly larger but RV may overlap along venter, surface smooth or finely punctate, shell substance cloudy white in Recent forms. Inner lamellae broadest anteriorly; radial canals few, simple, widely spaced. Males slightly larger ·than females, but nearly of same proporlions; some species parthenogenetic (40, 68). [Freshwater.] [BRADY'S (1846) designation of Cypris reptalls as type species of Candona takes precedence over selection of this same species by BRADY & NORMA" (15) as the type species o'f Erpetocypris, and likewise of their designation of Cypris candida O.F.MuLLER, 1776; as type species of Candolla; accordingly Erpetocypris and SARS' Herpetocypris. which is an invalid emendation of Erpetocypris, must be classed as objective junior synonyms of Calldolla.]




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