Darwinulidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Oligostraca
Classis: Ostracoda
Subclassis: Podocopa
Ordo: Podocopida
Subordo: Darwinulocopina
Superfamilia: Darwinuloidea

Familia: Darwinulidae
Genera: Alicenula – Darwinula – Isabenula – Microdarwinula – Penthesilenula – Vestalenula
Name

Darwinulidae Brady & Norman, 1889

Type genus: Darwinula G.S. Brady & Robertson, 1885
References
Primary references

Brady, G.S. & Norman, A.M. 1889. A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of north-western Europe. Section I: Podocopa. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (Series 2), 4(2): 63–270. Reference page.

Additional references

Martens, K. & Rossetti, G. 2002: On the Darwinulidae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Oceania. Invertebrate Systematics, 16 (2): 195–208. DOI: 10.1071/IT01022
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. Archive Reference page.
Schön, I. et al. 2012: Cryptic Species in Putative Ancient Asexual Darwinulids (Crustacea, Ostracoda). PLoS ONE, 7 (7): e39844. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039844 PDF [PDF = open access]
Webber, W.R. et al. 2010: [Chapter] EIGHT Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98-232 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3

Darwinulidae is a family of ostracods belonging to the order Podocopida.[1]

Genera:[1]

Alicenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998
Darwella
Darwinula Brady & Norman, 1889
Isabenula Rossetti, Pinto & Martens, 2011
Microdarwinula Danielopol, 1969
Penthesilenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998
Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998

References

"Darwinulidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 13 May 2021.