Rosalie F. Maddocks & Thomas M. Iliffe (1986). Podocopid Ostracoda of
Bermudian caves. Stygologia 2:26-76.
About 33 species have been identified in 52 samples of
podocopid Ostracoda collected in 24 inland marine caves on Bermuda. One
genus (Aponesidea) and 10 species are described as new, 11 have been
previously described, and 12 are reported in open nomenclature. At least 12
species are endemic to Bermuda, while another 9 species are widely
distributed in carbonate environments of the Caribbean-Antillean region. The
majority are not restricted to the caves but occur also in sediments
collected from Harrington Sound, Castle Harbour, North Lagoon, the South
Shore, and other open-water localities of Bermuda. Four fresh- to
brackish-water species belong to ecologically tolerant and geographically
widely dispersed genera.
Rosalie F.
Maddocks, University of Houston, Department of
Geosciences,
Houston, Texas 77204, USA - Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of
Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston,
Texas 77553, USA.
E-mail: RMaddocks@uh.edu - iliffet@tamug.edu
Keywords: Ostracoda, podocopid, caves, anchialine, Bermuda.
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