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Potamocypris
Sign in to savePotamocypris is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in the family Cyprididae. There are currently 44 extant species of Potamocypris. The majority of the species occur in freshwater habitats; only a few species of the genus (e.g., Potamocypris steueri) colonize marine brackish coastal waters.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassOstracoda
- OrderPodocopida
- FamilyCyprididae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 358
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Cyprididae
- Collections
- NHMUK, KU, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, United States, Dr Congo
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Potamocypris is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in the family Cyprididae. There are currently 44 extant species of Potamocypris. The majority of the species occur in freshwater habitats; only a few species of the genus (e.g., Potamocypris steueri) colonize marine brackish coastal waters.
==Species== Potamocypris alveolata Potamocypris arcuata Potamocypris bituminicola Potamocypris bowmani Potamocypris brachychaeta Potamocypris chelazzii Potamocypris comosa Potamocypris dadayi Potamocypris deflexa Potamocypris dorsomarginata Potamocypris elegantula Potamocypris fallax Potamocypris fulva Potamocypris gibbula Potamocypris humilis Potamocypris hummelincki Potamocypris illinoisensis Potamocypris insularis Potamocypris islagrandensis Potamocypris koenikei Potamocypris lobata Potamocypris mastigophora Potamocypris narayanani Potamocypris ombrophila Potamocypris pallida Potamocypris paludum Potamocypris philotherma Potamocypris problematica Potamocypris reticulata Potamocypris saskatchewanensis Potamocypris schubarti Potamocypris similis Potamocypris smaragdina Potamocypris steueri Potamocypris stewarti Potamocypris sudzukii Potamocypris unicaudata Potamocypris variegata Potamocypris villosa Potamocypris worthingtoni Potamocypris zschokkei
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Potamocypris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.