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Candonidae
Sign in to saveCandonidae is a family of ostracods, containing around 25% of all known species of freshwater ostracods. Around 75% of genera in the family are endemic to a single zoogeographic region. It contains more than 500 species, of which more than 300 are endemic to the Palearctic realm.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassOstracoda
- OrderPodocopida
- FamilyCandonidae
Candonidae is een familie van kreeftachtigen uit de klasse van de Ostracoda (mosselkreeftjes). Taxonomie Onderfamilies Candoninae Kaufmann, 1900 Paracypridinae Sars, 1923 Geslachten Aglaiella Daday, 1910 † Aglaiocypris Sylvester-Bradley, 1947 Coralliaglaia Hartmann, 1974 Dolerocypria Tressler, 1937 Fabaeformiscandona Krstic, 1972 Gerdocypris McKenzie, 1983 † Ghardaglaia Hartmann, 1964 Hansacypris Wouters, 1984 Mangalocypria Wouters, 1998 Mungava Harding, 1962 Neocandona Karanovic, 2005 Phlyctenophora Brady, 1880 Physocypria Renaudcypris McKenzie, 1980 Triangulocypris Teeter, 1975
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 69
- Family
- Candonidae
- Collections
- NMV, WAM, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia, Chile
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- Parent taxon
- Cypridoidea
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- Hvitmuslingkreps Candona candida.jpg
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Candonidae is a family of ostracods, containing around 25% of all known species of freshwater ostracods. Around 75% of genera in the family are endemic to a single zoogeographic region. It contains more than 500 species, of which more than 300 are endemic to the Palearctic realm.
Cyclocypridinae are generally good swimmers, but Candoninae is unable to swim.
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