Abyssocythere Benson 1971

• Main Authors: Brandão, Simone N., Stuhlmann, Annalena, Vital, Helenice, Brandt, Angelika
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Ostracoda; Podocopida; Trachyleberididae; Abyssocythere; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6082436; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6082436

Genus Abyssocythere Benson, 1971 Type species. Abyssocythere casca Benson, 1971 (by original designation) Additional valid species. (listed by original binomina in alphabetical order of the species epithet) (Brandão et al. 2015; Kempf, 1986, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996a, b, 2002, 2004, 2008a, b) Abyssocythere atlantica Benson, 1971; Abyssocythere australis Benson, 1971; Abyssocythere bilobata Colin, 1987; Abyssocythere braziliensis Benson in Benson & Peypouquet, 1983; Abyssocythere carpathica Pokorny, 1973; Abyssocythere casca Benson, 1971; Paleoabyssocythere cenozoica Benson, 1977; Cythereis contramaestrensis Luebimova & Sanchez, 1974; Bradleya (Quasibradleya) diagrenona Guernet, 1985; Abyssocythere japonica Benson, 1971; Abyssocythere pannucea Benson, 1971; Abyssocythere paratrinidadensis Boomer, 1999; Abyssocythere regalis Zhao in Wang et al. 1985; Abyssocythere scotti Yasuhara et al., 2015 and Abyssocythere bensoni sp. nov. Additional unaccepted species (previously assigned to Abyssocythere, but currently accepted in other genera). (Brandão et al. 2015; Kempf, 1986, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996a, b, 2002, 2004, 2008a, b) Abyssocythere squalidentata (Brady, 1880) nomen dubium according to Benson (1971); Abyssocythere antarctica (Neale, 1967) accepted as Austrotrachyleberis antarctica (Neale, 1967); Abyssocythere trinidadensis (Bold, 1957) accepted as Paleoabyssocythere trinidadensis (Bold, 1957). Abyssocythere sulcatoperforata (Brady, 1880) (most probably a typographical mistake for Abyssocythereis sulcatoperforata) accepted as Protocythere sulcatoperforata (Brady, 1880) (new combination by Yasuhara et al., 2015). Abyssocythere bensoni sp. nov. (Figures 1, 5, 6, Table 1) Diagnosis. An Abyssocythere species with sub-quadrate to sub-ovate outline in lateral view. Anterior and posterior cardinal angle with similar height. Lateral surface relatively level. Long spines present on anterior margin. Secondary reticulation conspicuous and rounded. Sub-central tubercle relatively small, but prominent. Derivation of name. ...