Three new genera and nine new species of the subfamily Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda,
Podocopida) from the Pilbara region (Western Australia).
Lyncerus nasutus Pleuroxus nasutus Nicolet Nicolet (1849) (1849) (Species inquirenda)
Podocopida 50.
The order Ostracoda is divided into three suborders (i) Myodocopida (ii) Platycopida and (iii)
Podocopida. First two suborders are represented in marine and members of the third are found in freshwater (Pennak, 2001).
Class Ostracoda Latreille, 1806 Subclass Podocopa G.W.Muller, 1894 Order
Podocopida Sars, 1866 Suborder Podocopina Sars, 1866 Superfamily Darwinuloidea Brady and Norman, 1889 Family Darwinulidae Brady and Norman, 1889 Genus Darwinula Brady and Robertson, 1885 Darwinula stevensoni (Brady and Robertson, 1870) Genus Microdarwinula Danielopol, 1965 Microdarwinula inexpectata Pinto et al., 2005 Microdarwinula sp.2 n.sp.
Estudios taxonomicos, ontogeneticos, ecologicos y etologicos sobre los ostracodos de agua dulce en Colombia (Ostracoda,
Podocopida, Cyprididae).
Crustaceans (Amphipoda, Decapoda & Podocopida) were in 38% of the catfish and represented 2.8% of gut contents weight.
Percent Mean Mean % by occurrence number per weight fish Algae/Detritus: 98 85.2 Aquatic insects: Coleoptera 24 0.6 0.3 Diptera 45 1.3 0.5 Ephemeroptera 26 0.4 0.5 Hemiptera 21 0.7 4.1 Lepidoptera 38 2.8 1.3 Odonata 7 0.1 1.6 Trichoptera 7 0.1 0.5 Unidentified 5 0.07 0.5 Crustaceans: Amphipoda 29 1.3 0.7 Decapoda 10 0.1 2.1 Podocopida 5 0.05 <0.1 Fish bones 2 0.05 0.2 Hydracarina 2 0.02 <0.1 Mollusca: Bivalvia 2 0.02 0.02 Gastropoda 19 0.5 1.2 Parasites: Acanthocephala 21 0.95 0.01 Cestoda 2 0.02 0.07 Trematoda 45 3.6 0.5 Terrestrial organisms 7 0.1 0.8