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Legitimocythere Coles & Whatley, 1989 
AphiaID: 390764

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Ostracoda (Class) > Podocopa (Subclass) > Podocopida (Order) > Cytherocopina (Suborder) > Cytheroidea (Superfamily) > Trachyleberididae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Legitimocythere acanthoderma (Brady, 1880) (type by original designation)
Parent Trachyleberididae Sylvester-Bradley, 1948
Source  additional source: Eagar, S.G. (2009). Ostracoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Legitimocythere acanthoderma (Brady, 1880)
Species Legitimocythere aculeata Jellinek & Swanson, 2003
Species Legitimocythere bermudezi (Bold, 1946) Coles & Whatley, 1989 †
Species Legitimocythere castanea Jellinek & Swanson, 2003
Species Legitimocythere geniculata Mazzini, 2005
Species Legitimocythere presequenta (Benson, 1977) Coles & Whatley, 1989

Species Legitimocythere dasyderma (Brady, 1880) represented as Henryhowella dasyderma (Brady, 1880) (alternate representation, new combination)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
Images 
Spines of Legitimocythere
Spines of Legitimocythere
added on 2012-11-21 - author: Brandão, Simone Nunes
qualitystatus: checked by Brandao, Simone Nunes on 2013-01-07 12:10:59

Left valve of Legitimocythere
Left valve of Legitimocythere
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Brandão, Simone Nunes
qualitystatus: checked by Brandao, Simone Nunes on 2013-01-07 21:28:52
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390764
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-04-06 09:45:08Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-02-26 19:31:58Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
2012-05-09 10:46:03Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
2012-06-11 15:27:04Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
2013-03-04 16:52:41Z  changed  Brandao, Simone Nunes
  
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  Citation: Brandão, S. (2013). Legitimocythere Coles & Whatley, 1989. 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=390764 on 2013-06-20
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