Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Oligostraca > Class Ostracoda > Subclass Podocopa > Order Podocopida > Suborder Cytherocopina > Superfamily Cytheroidea > Family Leptocytheridae > Genus Leptocythere

Leptocythere pellucida (Baird, 1850)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptocythere*	Sars, 1925	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cythere confusa*	Brady & Norman, 1889	subjective synonym
*Cythere pellucida*	Baird, 1850	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Horne, D.J.; Bruce, A.; Whittaker, J.E. (2001). Ostracoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 244-251
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
new combination reference	Sars, G.O. (1925). Cypridæ (concluded), Cytheridæ (part). In: Sars, G.O. (ed.) Ostracoda. Bergen, Bergen Museum, An Account of the Crustacea of Norway. 9(IX-X):137-176.

Genbank

Citation

Brandão, S.N.; Antonietto, L.S; Nery, D.G.; Pereira, J.S.; Praxedes, R.A.; Santos, S.G.; Karanovic, I. (2025). World Ostracoda Database. Leptocythere pellucida (Baird, 1850). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128204

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Leptocythere pellucida (Baird, 1850). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/35dac8af-0eb4-461b-8a23-8dd75c1e7298