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  Subphylum Crustacea

Class Ostracoda (seed shrimp)

    Subclass Podocopa -- Wisconsin!
    Subclass Myodocopa

Taxon Information

The Class Ostracoda has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Ostracoda, (Martens & Savatenalinton, 2011).
• Ostracoda, (Smith & Delorme, 2010).
• Ostracoda, [North America] (Covich et al., 2010).
• Ostracoda, (Kitchell & Clark, 1979).
• Ostracoda, (Tressler, 1959).

Bibliography

• Martens, K. & S. Savatenalinton. 2011. A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea). Zootaxa 2855: 1-79. [Available online]
• Smith, A.J. & L.D. Delorme. 2010. Ostracoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 725-771.
• Covich, A.P., J.H. Thorp & D.C. Rogers. 2010. Introduction to the Subphylum Crustacea. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 695-723.
• Martens, K., I. Schön, C. Meisch, & D.J. Horne. 2008. Global diversity of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 185-193. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Ostracoda (seed shrimps). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 521-544.
• Kitchell, J.A. & D.L. Clark. 1979. Distribution, ecology, and taxonomy of Recent freshwater Ostracoda of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. Publication of the Natural History Council, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1. 24 pp. [Available online]
• Tressler, W.L. 1959. Ostracoda. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 657-734.
• Tressler, W.L. 1947. A check list of the known species of North American freshwater Ostracoda. American Midland Naturalist 38: 698-707. [Available online]

Web Pages

• Encyclopedia of Life
• Fossil and Living Ostracoda of the World
• Identification and Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Kempf Database Ostracoda
• Ostracode Diversity Project
• Tree of Life
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Ostracoda Database
• World Register of Marine Species