Cytheromatinae

Cytheroma variabilis, from Benson et al. (1961).

Belongs within: Cytheroidea.

The Cytheromatinae are a group of ostracods in which the mandibular palp is well developed and the branchial plate bears two long rays and one shorter one.

<==Cytheromatinae [Cytherominae] DH86
    |--Pontocytheroma Marinov 1963 G83
    |    `--P. arenaria Marinov 1963 DH86
    `--+--Paracytheroma Juday 1907 G83
       |    `--*P. pedrensis Juday 1907 BB61
       |--Pellucistoma Coryell & Fields 1937 G83 [=Pellucistama (l. c.) M61; incl. Javanella Kingma 1948 BB61]
       |    `--*P. howei Coryell & Fields 1937 BB61
       `--Cytheroma Müller 1894 G83
            |--*C. variabilis Müller 1894 BB61
            |--C. karadaghiensis Dubowsky 1939 G83
            `--C. similis Skogsberg 1950 G83

*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.

[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.

[G83] Gottwald, J. 1983. Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. XXX. Podocopida 1 (Ostracoda). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 90: 1–187.

[M61] Moore, R. C. 1961. Supplement—USSR treatise on Ostracoda. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt Q. Arthropoda 3: Crustacea: Ostracoda pp. Q422–Q429. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.