Australian Museum Journal A new genus and two new species of Cypridinidae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Myodocopina) from Australia
- Shortform:
- Parker, 1998, Rec. Aust. Mus. 50(1): 1–17
- Author(s):
- Parker, A. R.
- Year published:
- 1998
- Title:
- A new genus and two new species of Cypridinidae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Myodocopina) from Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 1
- End page:
- 17
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1271
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 13 May 1998
- Cover date:
- 13 May 1998
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: OSTRACODA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 11 March 2009
- Available online:
- 16 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 1271
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (104kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (3353kb PDF)
Abstract
A new genus and two new species of Cypridinidae, Lowrya taiti and Lowrya kornickeri, are described from New South Wales, Australia. Both species are scavengers. They possess an elongate frontal knob and a structurally coloured red area on the rostrum of the carapace. The adult males of these species bear large compound eyes with very large dorsal ommatidia and very large "suckers" arising from cup-shaped processes near the base of the c-setae of the first antennae. Lowrya taiti possesses "coelotrichs", which are unusual evagination/setal sensillae of the carapace (Parker, submitted), and a concave anterior margin of the left rostrum only. Lowrya kornickeri is unusual because it bears an additional small "sucker" distal to the large basal 'sucker' on the basal setule of the b-seta of the male first antenna.