WoRMS taxon details
Cypridopsis vidua (Müller, 1776)
160026 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160026)
accepted
Species
Cypridopsis chavesi Moniez, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypridopsis helvetica Kaufmann, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypridopsis obesa Brady & Robertson, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypridopsis pustulosa Furtos, 1933 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypridopsis viduella Sars, 1895 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypris pincta Straus, 1821 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cypris sella Baird, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cypris vidua Müller, 1776 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Monoculus vidua Müller, 1776 · unaccepted > superseded combination
recent + fossil
Not documented
Distribution Mount Desert Region
Distribution Mount Desert Region [details]
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. Cypridopsis vidua (Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160026 on 2026-09-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cypris sella Baird, 1846) Baird, W. (1846). Description of some new genera and species of British Entomostraca. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 17 (1): 410-416, pl. 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/037454809495847 [details] 
original description (of Cypridopsis obesa Brady & Robertson, 1869) Brady, G. S. & D. Robertson. (1869). XLV.—Notes of a week's dredging in the West of Ireland. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(17): 353-374., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18662754 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis pustulosa Furtos, 1933) Furtos, N.C. (1933). The Ostracoda of Ohio. <em>Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin.</em> 29:411-524. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936) Furtos, N.C. (1936). Freshwater Ostracoda from Florida and North Carolina. <em>The American Midland Naturalist.</em> 17(2):491-522., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2419975 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Cypridopsis helvetica Kaufmann, 1900) Kaufmann, A. (1900). Cypriden und Darwinuliden der Schweiz. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 8:209-423., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.10584 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis chavesi Moniez, 1888) Moniez, R. (1888). Ostracodes. In: Barrois, T C (ed.). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des eaux douces des Acores, 4. (Crustacés) (2). Lille, 7-11 [details]
original description (of Cypris vidua Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis viduella Sars, 1895) Sars, G.O. (1895). On some South-African Entomostraca raised from dried mud. <em>Videnskabs-Selskabet Skrifter. I. Mathematisk-Naturvidenskabs.</em> 8:3-56. [details]
original description (of Cypris pincta Straus, 1821) Straus, H.E. (1821). Mémoire sur les Cypris, de la classe des crustacés. <em>Mem.Mus.Hist.nat.Paris.</em> 7:33-61. [details]
basis of record Procter, W. (1933). A Report of the Organization, Laboratory Equipment, Methods and Station Lists Together with a List of the Marine Fauna with Descriptions and Places of Capture. To which is Added a List of the Arachnida and other Non-Marine Forms. <em>Part V, In: Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region. Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.</em> Philadelphia, PA, USA. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Sabater, L. M.; Monferran, M. D.; Higuti, J.; Pérez, A. P. (2023). An annotated checklist of recent non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5336(2): 151-178., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.1 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis obesa Brady & Robertson, 1869) Brady, G. S. & D. Robertson. (1869). XLV.—Notes of a week's dredging in the West of Ireland. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 3(17): 353-374., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18662754 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis pustulosa Furtos, 1933) Furtos, N.C. (1933). The Ostracoda of Ohio. <em>Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin.</em> 29:411-524. [details] Available for editors
original description (of Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936) Furtos, N.C. (1936). Freshwater Ostracoda from Florida and North Carolina. <em>The American Midland Naturalist.</em> 17(2):491-522., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2419975 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Cypridopsis helvetica Kaufmann, 1900) Kaufmann, A. (1900). Cypriden und Darwinuliden der Schweiz. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 8:209-423., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.10584 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis chavesi Moniez, 1888) Moniez, R. (1888). Ostracodes. In: Barrois, T C (ed.). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des eaux douces des Acores, 4. (Crustacés) (2). Lille, 7-11 [details]
original description (of Cypris vidua Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]
original description (of Cypridopsis viduella Sars, 1895) Sars, G.O. (1895). On some South-African Entomostraca raised from dried mud. <em>Videnskabs-Selskabet Skrifter. I. Mathematisk-Naturvidenskabs.</em> 8:3-56. [details]
original description (of Cypris pincta Straus, 1821) Straus, H.E. (1821). Mémoire sur les Cypris, de la classe des crustacés. <em>Mem.Mus.Hist.nat.Paris.</em> 7:33-61. [details]
basis of record Procter, W. (1933). A Report of the Organization, Laboratory Equipment, Methods and Station Lists Together with a List of the Marine Fauna with Descriptions and Places of Capture. To which is Added a List of the Arachnida and other Non-Marine Forms. <em>Part V, In: Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region. Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.</em> Philadelphia, PA, USA. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Sabater, L. M.; Monferran, M. D.; Higuti, J.; Pérez, A. P. (2023). An annotated checklist of recent non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Argentina, South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5336(2): 151-178., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.1 [details]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Williams, D. D.; Williams, N. E. (1998). Freshwater invertebrates from the Bermuda Islands and their zoogeographical affinities. Tropical Zoology, 11(2): 353-369, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1998.10539371 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Maddocks, R. F.; Machain-Castillo, M. L.; Gio-Argaez, F. R. (2009). Podocopan Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota Biodiversity.</em> 877-894., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285932022_Podocopan_Ostracoda_Crustacea_of_the_Gulf_of_Mexico [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Maddocks, R. F.; Machain-Castillo, M. L.; Gio-Argaez, F. R. (2009). Podocopan Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota Biodiversity.</em> 877-894., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285932022_Podocopan_Ostracoda_Crustacea_of_the_Gulf_of_Mexico [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Mount Desert Region [details]
To Barcode of Life (207 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (135 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cypridopsis vidua)
To GenBank (126 nucleotides; 135 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Cypridopsis vidua (O.F. Muller); NHMUK:ecatalogue:9286286)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (21 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 71375) (from synonym Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (135 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cypridopsis vidua)
To GenBank (126 nucleotides; 135 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Cypridopsis vidua (O.F. Muller); NHMUK:ecatalogue:9286286)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (21 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 71375) (from synonym Cypridopsis okeechobei Furtos, 1936)
To ITIS