Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Oligostraca

Ostracoda Latreille, 1802

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Myodocopa Müller, 1894
Ostracoda incertae sedis
Podocopa Müller, 1894

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: mosselkreeftjes sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: mussel shrimp; ostracods; seed shrimp; seed shrimps sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 German: Muschelkrebse; Ostracoden sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 Japanese: 貝形虫綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Swedish: musselkräftor

Literature

original description

Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 2:382 p., XV pls.

redescription

Hartmann, G. (1975). Ostracoda. In: Gruner, H (ed.). Dr. H.G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Fünfter Band: Arthropoda. I. Abteilung: Crustacea. 2. Buch, IV. Teil. 4. Lieferung. Seite 569-768. Textabbildungen 374-474.Akademiche Verlaggesellschaft Geest & Portig K.-G. Veb Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Ostracoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1078

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Ostracoda Latreille, 1802. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/21f57334-f739-4cd9-b10f-22607954f39e

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

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2016-05-19 by Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall & by Simone Nunes Brandão & by Dr. David Horne

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