Marine Species Traits - Metavargula optilus (Kornicker, 1968)

Ostracoda taxon details

Metavargula optilus (Kornicker, 1968)

AphiaID

450927 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:450927)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Metavargula Kornicker, 1970

Original name

Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968

Synonymised names

Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968) Kornicker, L.S. (1968a) Bathyal myodocopid Ostracoda from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81, 439–472. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Brandão, S. N.; Antonietto, L. S.; Pereira, J. S.; Pereira, S. G. G.; Sá, H. A. B.; Praxedes, R. A.; Sabater, L. M., Santos, S.G.; Karanovic, I. (2025). World Ostracoda Database. Metavargula optilus (Kornicker, 1968). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/ostracoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=450927 on 2025-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-02-09 06:41:22Z

created

Kihara, Terue Cristina

2010-02-09 09:10:03Z

checked

Boxshall, Geoff

2014-08-13 08:10:14Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

2014-08-13 09:29:31Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

2016-07-27 20:20:59Z

changed

Brandão, Simone Nunes

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968) Kornicker, L.S. (1968a) Bathyal myodocopid Ostracoda from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81, 439–472. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

new combination reference Kornicker, L. S. (1970). Ostracoda (Myodocopina) from the Peru-Chile Trench and the Antarctic Ocean. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 32: 1-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.32 [details] Available for editors

[request]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (3 records) (from synonym Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 122076) (from synonym Bathyvargula optilus Kornicker, 1968)