Fresh-Water Ostracoda from Florida and North Carolina
1936; University of Notre Dame; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2419975
ISSN1938-4238
Autores Tópico(s)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
ResumoThe fresh-water Ostracoda discussed in this report are, with one exception, based upon specimens obtained from the collections of algae taken from various wayside pools, ditches, rivers, and lakes of Florida during August of 1932 by R. Kenneth Salisbury of Terrace Park, Ohio. These specimens prove to be of especial interest in that they furnish an introduction to the freshwater fauna of a region noted for its wide diversity and richness of plant and animal life. The excepted species, Cypretta turgida (Sars), from Beaufort, North Carolina, represents a first record for the western hemisphere. Eighteen species and one variety are described from Florida; eleven, including the variety, are new. Two of the species arefound also in northeastern and central United States, one in Yucatan, one in South America, one in Europe, and one in Russia. This is certainly far from a complete list of species occurring in Florida, being based upon twenty-seven samples representative of the August fauna only. We may point out, however, that the number and diversity of species taken indicates a luxuriant condition not characteristic of the summer fauna of more northerly regions such as Ohio or Massachusetts. The author is deeply obliged to Mr. Salisbury through whose kindness in collecting and preserving the material this study was made possible, to Dr. J. Paul Visscher and the Graduate School of Western Reserve University for the use of microscopes and other equipment, and to Dr. M. H. Jacobs for library facilities of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Systematic Discussion
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