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Potamocypris

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Potamocypris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Cyprididae
Subfamily: Cypridopsinae
Genus: Potamocypris
Brady, 1870

Potamocypris is a genus of ostracod crustaceans in the family Cyprididae. There are currently 44 extant species of Potamocypris.[1] The majority of the species occur in freshwater habitats; only a few species of the genus (e.g., Potamocypris steueri) colonize marine brackish coastal waters.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Meisch, C.; Smith, R.J.; Martens, K. (2019). "A subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 492: 1–135.
  2. ^ Meisch, C., 1984. Revision of the Recent Western Europe species of genus Potamcypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Part 1: Species with short swimming setae on the second antennae. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg 3: 1-55.
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