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Cytheridea (Cytheridea) mulleri

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae

Taxonomy

Cytheridea mulleri was named by Bosquet (1852). It is extant.

It was recombined as Cythere mulleri by Münster (1830); it was recombined as Cytheridea (Cytheridea) mulleri by Stephenson (1936).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acuminata, C. acuminata, C. amygdaloides, C. fourniei, C. hoerstgenensis, C. macropora, C. muelleri, C. neapolitana, C. oliverensis, C. perforata, C. punctillata, C. rotundus, C. rudia, C. sandbergeri, C. subperforata, C. trigonalis, C. virginiensis, C. habropapillosa, C. subpyriformis, C. compressa

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1830	Cythere mulleri Münster p. 63
1852	Cytheridea mulleri Bosquet
1936	Cytheridea (Cytheridea) mulleri Stephenson p. 699 figs. Plate 94, figures 1, 2, 7

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997

Rank	Name	Author
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Podocopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Cytherideidae	Sars 1925
subfamily	Cytherideinae	Sars 1925
tribe	Cytherideini	Kollmann 1958
genus	Cytheridea	Bosquet 1852
subgenus	Cytheridea	Bosquet 1852
species	mulleri	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Cytheridea (Cytheridea) mulleri Bosquet 1852

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

marine, brackish, freshwaterf

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

detritivoreo

Diet 2:

grazero

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2017-04-17 10:09:10

Modified:

2017-04-17 10:09:30

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 41.03000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Texas)	Cytheridea mulleri (93894 93895 93896 93897 93898)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Cytheridea mulleri (40268)