Timiriaseviinae

External views of left and right valves of Kovalevskiella phreaticola, from Yavuzatmaca et al. (2018). Scale bar = 50 µm.

Belongs within: Cytheroidea.

The Timiriaseviinae are a group of freshwater ostracods characterised by an antennula with a relatively short distal segment and a maxillule with only a single minute external distal seta on the proximal segment or without such a seta.

<==Timiriaseviinae DH86
    |--Bronsteiniana Mandelstam 1956 M61, BB61
    |    `--*B. galba Mandelstam 1956 BB61
    |--Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 M61, BB61 (see below for synonymy)
    |    `--*T. wyomingense (Branson 1935) [=*Morrisonia wyomingensis] BB61
    |--Metacypris Brady & Robertson 1870 M61, BB61
    |    |--*M. cordata Brady & Robertson 1870 BB61
    |    |--M. laesslei Tressler 1956 T56
    |    `--M. maracaoensis Tressler 1941 T56
    |--Emphasia Mandelstam 1956 M61, BB61
    |    `--*E. ceratophaga Mandelstam 1956 BB61
    |--Timiriasevia Mandelstam 1947 BB61
    |    |--*T. epidermiformis Mandelstam 1947 BB61
    |    |--T. acuta BB61
    |    `--T. polymorpha BB61
    `--Kovalevskiella Klein 1963 DH86
         |--K. bulgarica (Danielopol 1970) DH86
         |--K. evetkovi (Danielopol 1969) DH86
         |--K. phreaticola (Danielopol 1965) DH86
         `--K. rudjakovi (Danielopol 1969) DH86

Theriosynoecum Branson 1936 M61, BB61 [=Morrisonia Branson 1935 non Grote 1874 BB61, Theriosynecum Mandelstam in Galeeva 1955 BB61]

*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.

[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.

[T56] Tressler, W. L. 1956. Ostracoda from bromeliads in Jamaica and Florida. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 (10): 333–336.