Genus Penthesilenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998

Superfamily: Darwinuloidea Brady & Robertson, 1885
Family: Darwinulidae Brady & Robertson, 1885

One species has been reported from Japan:

1. Penthesilenula brasiliensis (Pinto & Kotzian, 1961)

Figures in: Rossetti & Martens 1998; Smith 2011.

Habitat: Seep with leaf litter.

Mode of life: Benthic and interstitial.

Reproductive mode: Asexual, males unknown.

Known distribution: Nakasaki Prefecture (Tsushima) (Smith & Chang, 2022). A cosmopolitan species (Rossetti & Martens 1998).

References:

⚬ 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. & Chang, C. Y. 2022. Two new species of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the genera Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998 (Darwinuloidea) and Microloxoconcha Hartmann, 1954 (Cytheroidea) from Tsushima, Japan, and a summary of the non-marine ostracod fauna of the island. Zootaxa, 5150 (4), 529-555.

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