Genus Chlamydotheca Saussure, 1858
Superfamily: Cypridoidea Baird, 1845
Family: Cyprididae Baird, 1845
Subfamily: Cypridinae Baird, 1845
One species has been reported from Japan:
1. Chlamydotheca arcuata (Sars, 1901)
External view of female left valve, length 2800 microns.
External view of female right valve, length 2902 microns.
- Additional figures in: Sars 1901, Furtos 1933, Okubo 2004, Smith & Delorme 2010, Diaz & Lopretta 2011.
- Habitat: In Japan, only reported from a water lily pond in a botanical garden (Okubo 2004). Elsewhere reported from a river (Davis 1980), warm springs, streams, marshes, margins of lakes (Forester 1991), temporary ponds (Diaz & Lopretta 2011), and a canal (Furtos 1933).
- Mode of life: Nektobenthic (swimmer).
- Reproductive mode: Asexual.
- Known distribution: Shiga Prefecture (Okubo 2004). Elsewhere, Brazil (Sars 1901), Paraguay (Daday 1905), Argentina (Diaz & Lopretto 2011), Mexico (Forester 1991), and USA (Furtos 1933; Davis 1980; Forester 1991). Notes: This species shows a wide size range, from about 2 mm (Diaz & Lopretta 2011) to 3 mm in length (Forester 1991).
- References:
- ⚬ Daday, E. 1905. Untersuchungen über die Süsswasser-Mikrofauna Paraguay. Zoologica, 18, 1-374.
- ⚬ Davis, J. R. 1980. Species composition and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates of Lower Deveil's River, Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist, 25, 379-384.
- ⚬ Diaz, A. R. & Lopretto, E. C. 2011. The genus Chlamydotheca Saussure (Crustacea: Ostracods) in northeastern Argentina. Nauplius, 19, 97-107.
- ⚬ Furtos, N. 1933. The Ostracoda of Ohio. Ohio Biological Survey, 5, 413-524.
- ⚬ Forester, R. M. 1991. Ostracode assemblages from springs in the Western United States: implications for paleohydrology. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 155, 181-201.
- ⚬ Okubo, I. 2004. Nihon tansui san kaimijinko rui ni tsuite. Kabushikigaisha Sanmon Insatsusho, Okayama, Japan, 72pp. [In Japanese, privately published].
- ⚬ Sars, G. O. 1901. Contributions to the knowledge of the freshwater Entomostraca of South America. Part 2. Copepods - Ostracods. Archiv Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, 24, 1-46.
- ⚬ Smith, A. & Delorme, D. 2010. Ostracoda. In: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Elsevier Inc.