WoRMS taxon details
Abyssocythere Benson, 1971
459775 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:459775)
accepted
Genus
- Species Abyssocythere atlantica Benson, 1971
- Species Abyssocythere australis Benson, 1971
- Species Abyssocythere bensoni Brandão, Stuhlmann, Vital & Brandt, 2016
- Species Abyssocythere casca Benson, 1971
- Species Abyssocythere japonica Benson, 1971
- Species Abyssocythere pannucea Benson, 1971
- Species Abyssocythere piovesanae Praxedes, Brandt & Brandão, 2025
- Species Abyssocythere regalis Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Min, Bian, Zheng, Cheng & Chen, 1988
- Species Abyssocythere squalidentata (Brady, 1880) (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Species Abyssocythere antarctica (Neale, 1967) accepted as Austrotrachyleberis antarctica (Neale, 1967) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Abyssocythere sulcatoperforata (Brady, 1880) accepted as Abyssocythereis sulcatoperforata (Brady, 1880) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Benson, R. H. (1971). A new Cenozoic deep-sea genus <i>Abyssocythere</i> (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Trachyleberididae) with descriptions of five new species. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> 7: 1-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.7.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Brandão, S. N.; Antonietto, L. S.; Carvalho, A. B. G. D.; Pereira, J. S.; Pereira, S. G. G.; Praxedes, R. A.; Sá, H. A. B.; Sabater, L. M. (2026). World Ostracoda Database. Abyssocythere Benson, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459775 on 2026-03-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Benson, R. H. (1971). A new Cenozoic deep-sea genus <i>Abyssocythere</i> (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Trachyleberididae) with descriptions of five new species. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> 7: 1-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.7.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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taxonomy source
Hartmann, G. & Puri, H.S. (1974). Summary of neontological and paleontological classification of Ostracoda. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 70:7-73. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Brandão, S. N.; Stuhlmann, A.; Vital, H.; Brandt, A. (2016). Biogeography of <i>Abyssocythere</i> and <i>Dutoitella</i> (Ostracoda), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4139(3): 391., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.4 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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