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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstracoda 
AphiaID: 1078

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArthropoda (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrustacea (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOligostraca (Superclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstracoda (Class)
Authority Latreille, 1802
Status accepted
Rank Class
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOligostraca
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLoxocanche tamarindus (probably a misspelling of Loxoconcha)
Sources  original description Latreille, P. A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Histoires des Cypris et des Cytherées. 8 (4), 232-254. [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editormosselkreeftjes  [details]
English Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorseed shrimpChecked: verified by a taxonomic editorostracodsChecked: verified by a taxonomic editormussel shrimp  [details]
German Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuschelkrebse  [details]
Japanese Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor貝形虫  [details]
Swedish Checked: verified by a taxonomic editormusselkräftor  [details]
Direct child
taxa (7)
[sort alpha..]		 Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchaeocopa †
Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMetacopa †
Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMyodocopa
Subclass Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorOstracoda incertae sedis
Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPalaeocopa
Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPlatycopa
Subclass Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPodocopa
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorWorld Oceans [details]
From other sources
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Feedingtypes  carnivore [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details]
herbivore [details]
interface feeder [details]
scavenger [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorKasia Blachowiak-Samolik and Martin Angel: "An Atlas of Southern Ocean Ostracoda" 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorKempf Ostracods Database 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPage with accurate information and beautiful photos (by Robin Smith) 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTabular Key to the Subclasses of Ostracoda and Families of Myodocopa by Anne C. Cohen  
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThe International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) is an interdisciplinary, international organization of about 400 research scientists studying living and fossil Ostracoda. 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThe Micropalaeontological Society 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThe Ostracoda Lifedesk is a platform where pages for ostracod taxa can be created. 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVideo of living ostracods 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
ImagesChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1078
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-05-04 07:42:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-11-27 17:53:41Z  changed  Brandão, Simone-N.
2012-06-28 11:09:19Z  changed  Brandão, Simone-N.
2013-07-22 10:37:26Z  changed  Brandão, Simone-N.
2015-05-05 09:47:59Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
2016-05-19 09:31:12Z  changed  Brandão, Simone-N.
  
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  Citation: Brandão, Simone-N. (2016). Ostracoda. In: Brandão, S. N.; Angel, M. V.; Karanovic, I.; Perrier, V. & Yasuhara, M. (2017). World Ostracoda Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1078 on 2017-07-21
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