Cythere contorta

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Oligostraca
Classis: Ostracoda
Subclassis: Podocopa
Ordo: Podocopida
Subordo: Cytherocopina
Superfamilia: Cytheroidea
Familia: Cytheridae
Genus: Cythere

Species: Cythere contorta

Name

Cythere contorta Norman, 1862

• Type locality: Shelly beach sand, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England.
• Material: Only empty valves were described.
• Change of binomen: G. O. Sars (1866) described the animal, and as Sclerochilus contortus (Norman, 1862) Sars, 1866 it became the type species of the genus Sclerochilus G. O. Sars, 1866.

Primary references

• Norman, A.M. 1862: Contributions to British Carcinology - 2: On Species of Ostracoda new to Great Britain. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 9 (1): 43–52. PDF

Additional references

• Kempf, E.K. 1986: Index and Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda. Part 1, Index A. Sonderveröffentlichungen des Geologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln, 50: 1–762.
• Kempf, E.K. 1986: Index and Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda. Part 2, Index B. Sonderveröffentlichungen des Geologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln, 51: 1–708.
• Kempf, E.K. 1987: Index and Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda. Part 3, Index C. Sonderveröffentlichungen des Geologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln, 52: 1–771.
• Kempf, E.K. 1988: Index and Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda. Part 4, Bibliography A. Sonderveröffentlichungen des Geologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln, 53: 1–454.
• Kempf, E.K. 2004: Fossil and Living Ostracoda of the World. Index and Bibliography of Marine Ostracoda. Part 16, Index D: Recent Marine Ostracoda of the World. CD-ROM Edition with 20,686 dataset references (published by the author). [Occurrences of Cythere contorta Norman, 1862 are listed therein under UTIN (Universal Taxonomic Identification Number) Ostracoda: G2752 27028].
• Sars, G.O. 1866: Oversigt af Norges marine Ostracoder. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, Aar 1865: 1–130, Christiania 1866.