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Pontocyprididae

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Pontocyprididae

Taxonomy
Pontocyprididae was named by Mueller (1894). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Pontocyprididae by Bertels (1968); it was reranked as the subfamily Pontocypridinae by Hazel and Holden (1971).

It was assigned to Cyprididae by Bertels (1968) and Hazel and Holden (1971); to Podocopa by Carreño and Cronin (1993); to Cypridacea by Harloff and Jäger (1994); to Cypridoidea by Bergue and Govindan (2010); and to Pontocypridoidea by Babinot and Colin (2011) and Forel (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Pontocyprididae Mueller
1968Pontocyprididae Bertels
1971Pontocypridinae Hazel and Holden p. 9
1993Pontocyprididae Carreño and Cronin p. 152
1994Pontocyprididae Harloff and Jäger p. 27
2010Pontocyprididae Bergue and Govindan
2011Pontocyprididae Babinot and Colin p. 753
2017Pontocyprididae Forel

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
Life
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderCypridocopinaJones 1901
superfamilyPontocypridoideaMuller 1894
familyPontocyprididaeMueller 1894
familyPontocyprididaeMueller 1894

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.

Fm. Pontocyprididae Mueller 1894
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Argilloecia abnormalis Ceolin et al. 2015
Argilloecia concludus Ceolin et al. 2015
Argilloecia faba Alexander 1934
Argilloecia hiwanneensis Howe and Law 1936
Argilloecia hydrodynamicus Ceolin et al. 2015
Argilloecia subcylindrica Alexander 1934
G. †Bakunella
G. †Haworthina Kellett 1935
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Haworthina bulleta Harris and Lalicker 1932
Haworthina kellettae Kozur 1985
Haworthina prona Kozur 1985
G. †Liasina
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Liasina lanceolata Apostolescu 1959
Liasina vestibulifera Gramann 1963
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Pontocyprella cavata Donze 1967
Pontocyprella fabaeformis Drexler 1958
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Pontocypris mississippiensis Howe and Law 1936
Invalid names: Erythrocypris Mueller 1894 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available