Genus Microdarwinula Danielopol, 1968
Superfamily: Darwinuloidea Brady & Robertson, 1885
Family: Darwinulidae Brady & Robertson, 1885
One species has been reported from Japan:
1. Microdarwinula zimmeri (Menzel, 1916)
Left side view (on the left) and dorsal view of female Microdarwinula zimmeri, length about 0.3 mm.
External view of a female left valve of Microdarwinula zimmeri, length 350 microns.
External view of a female left right of Microdarwinula zimmeri, length 337 microns.
- Additional figures in: Danielopol 1968; Rossetti & Martens 1998; Smith 2011.
- Habitat: Seeps and gravel banks of rivers.
- Mode of life: Benthic and interstitial.
- Reproductive mode: Asexual, males unknown.
- Known distribution: Shiga Prefecture (Smith 2011). Elsewhere, known from Europe, Western Africa, North America, the Caribbean, Madagascar, the Middle East and Indonesia (see review of the distribution in Rossetti & Martens 1998).
- References:
- ⚬ Danielopol, D. L. 1968. Microdarwinula N. G. et quelques remarques sur la Répartition de la famille Darwinulidae Br. et Norm. [Crustacea, Ostracoda]. Annales de Limnologie, 4, 153-174.
- ⚬ Rossetti G. & Martens, K. 1998. Taxonomic revision of the Recent and Holocene representatives of the Family Darwinulidae (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a description of three new genera. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 68, 55-110.
- ⚬ Smith, R. J. 2011. Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus. Zootaxa, 3140, 15-37.