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Issue: Vol. 2793 No. 1: 17 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2793.1.3
Page range: 35–46
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 2

On Potamocypris compressa (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from temporary rock pools in Utah, USA, with notes on the taxonomic harmonisation of North American and European ostracod faunas

Queen Mary University of London, Department of Geography, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS UK
K.U.Leuven, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
K.U.Leuven, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Freshwater Biology, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Ghent University, Department of Biology, Limnology unit, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Crustacea taxonomy Ostracoda freshwater morphology zoogeography metadatabase

Abstract

We report the abundant occurrence of a species of the ostracod genus Potamocypris in temporary freshwater rock pools in Utah, USA. It is identified as P. compressa Furtos, 1933, a species hitherto considered to be only a variety or subspecies of P. smaragdina (Vávra, 1891) but here established as a valid species for the first time. The biogeographical implications of this taxonomic revision are considered in the context of a metadatabase of northern hemisphere nonmarine ostracods for palaeoclimate applications.

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