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Ostracoda 
AphiaID: 1078

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum)
Authority Latreille, 1806
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Class
Parent Crustacea
Sources  basis of record: Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch mosselkreeftjes  [details]
English mussel shrimp  [details]
English ostracods  [details]
English seed shrimp  [details]
German Muschelkrebse  [details]
Swedish musselkräftor  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Subclass Archaeocopida †
Order Leperdiliocopida †
Order Metacopida †
Subclass Myodocopa
Subclass Ostracoda incertae sedis
Subclass Palaeocopa
Subclass Podocopa
Family Volganellidae Mandelstam, 1956 †
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution World Oceans [details]
Feedingtypes  carnivore [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details]
herbivore [details]
interface grazer [details]
scavenger [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links Kasia Blachowiak-Samolik and Martin Angel: "An Atlas of Southern Ocean Ostracoda"
The International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) is an interdisciplinary, international organization of about 400 research scientists studying living and fossil Ostracoda.
The Ostracoda Lifedesk is a platform where pages for ostracod taxa can be created.
To GenBank
To ITIS
Images 
Ostracoda
Ostracoda
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Agnieszka Mackiewicz
qualitystatus: checked by Brandao, Simone Nunes on 2013-02-22 09:57:11

Ostracoda
Ostracoda
added on 2007-02-14 - author: Agnieszka Mackiewicz
qualitystatus: checked by Brandao, Simone Nunes on 2013-02-22 09:57:34
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1078
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-05-04 07:42:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-11-27 17:53:41Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
2012-06-28 11:09:19Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Ostracoda. In: Brandão, S. N.; Angel, M. V.; Karanovic, I. (2013) World Ostracoda Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1078 on 2013-05-24
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