Eucandona

Left (above) and right valves of female Eucandona candida, from Benson et al. (1961).

Belongs within: Candonidae.

Eucandona is a genus of candonid ostracods characterised by the smooth gamma seta on the mandibular palp.

<==Eucandona van Daday 1900 PK04 [incl. Cyprida Goldenberg 1870 BB61, Fabaeformiscandona Krstic 1972 PK04]
    |--*E. balatonica (van Daday 1893) PK04 [=Candona balatonica BB61]
    |--E. acuminata [=Fabaeformiscandona acuminata] PK04
    |--‘Fabaeformiscandona’ brevicornis F08
    |--E. candida (Müller 1776) BB61 [=Cypris candida BB61, Candona candida BB61, Monoculus candidus L02]
    |--E. csikii Daday 1901 D01
    |--E. fabaeformis (Fischer 1851) (see below for synonymy) PK04
    |--E. forma Karanovic 1999 PK04
    |--E. holzkampfi (Hartwig 1900) [=Candona holzkampfi, Fabaeformiscandona holzkampfi] PK04
    |--E. krstici (Petkovski 1969) [=Candona krstici] PK04
    |--‘Fabaeformiscandona’ latens (Klie 1940) DH86
    |--E. pubescens D01
    |--E. svetozari Petkovski & Karanovic 2004 PK04
    `--‘Fabaeformiscandona’ wegelini (Petkovski 1962) DH86

Eucandona fabaeformis (Fischer 1851) [=Cypris fabaeformis, Candona (Eucandona) fabaeformis, Fabaeformiscandona fabaeformis] PK04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BB61] Benson, R. H., J. M. Berdan, W. A. van den Bold, T. Hanai, I. Hessland, H. V. Howe, R. V. Kesling, S. A. Levinson, R. A. Reyment, R. C. Moore, H. W. Scott, R. H. Shaver, I. G. Sohn, L. E. Stover, F. M. Swain & P. C. Sylvester-Bradley. 1961. Systematic descriptions. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt Q. Arthropoda 3: Crustacea: Ostracoda pp. Q99–Q421. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.

[D01] Daday, E. 1901. Édesvizi mikroszkópi állatok [Mikroskopische Süsswasserthiere]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 375–470. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.

[DH86] Danielopol, D. L., & G. Hartmann. 1986. Ostracoda. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 265–294. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[F08] Fuhrmann, R. 2008. Die Ostrakoden- und Molluskenfauna des Auelehmprofils Zeitz (Landkreis Burgenland) und ihre Aussage zum Klima sowie zur Landnutzung im jüngeren Holozän Mitteldeutschlands. Mauritiana 20 (2): 253–281.

[L02] Latreille, P. A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes vol. 4. Familles naturelles des genres. F. Dufart: Paris.

[PK04] Petkovski, T. K., & I. Karanovic. 2004. Eucandona svetozari sp. n., a frehwater ostracod from Macedonia (SE Europe) (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Candoninae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 83 (2): 103–111.