Parapolycope spiralis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polycopoidea
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: Myodocopa Ordo: Halocyprida Subordo: Cladocopina Superfamilia: Polycopoidea

Familia: Polycopidae
Genus: Parapolycope
Species: Parapolycope spiralis

Name

Parapolycope spiralis Tanaka & Tsukagoshi, 2010

• Type locality: Found in interstitial environment, at 30 to 50 cm below the shoreline surface in coarse sand, Miho Spit, (35°01'13"N, 138°31'20"E), Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Pacific coast of central Japan.

Primary references

• Tanaka, H. & Tsukagoshi, A. 2010: Two new interstitial species of the genus Parapolycope (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from central Japan. Zootaxa, 2500: 39–57. Preview

Additional references

• Tanaka, H. 2013: The mating behaviour of the seed shrimp Parapolycope spiralis (Ostracoda: Cladocopina), with insight into the evolution of mating systems in cryptic interstitial habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 109 (4): 791–801. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12080