Vestalenula

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
Genus: Vestalenula
Species: V. boteai – V. botocuda – V. carinata – V. carveli – V. cornelia – V. cuneata – V. danielopoli – V. daps – V. flexuosa – V. inconspicua – V. irajai – V. lundi – V. marlieri – V. marmonieri – V. matildae – V. molopoensis – V. pagliolii
Name

Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998

Gender: feminine
Status: valid genus
Type species: Vestalenula boteai (Danielopol, 1970) Rossetti & Martens, 1998

References
Primary 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. Archive Reference page.

Additional references

Kempf, E.K. 2006: Fossil and Living Ostracoda of the World. Index and Bibliography of Nonmarine Ostracoda. Part 16, Index D: Recent Nonmarine Ostracoda of the World. CD-ROM Edition with 27,794 dataset references (published by the author). [Occurrences of Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998 are listed therein under UTIN (Universal Taxonomic Identification Number) Ostracoda: G0862 =====].
Martens, K. & Savatenalinton, S. 2011: A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea). Zootaxa, 2855: 1–79. PDF
Pinto, R.L., Rocha, C.E.F., Rossetti, G. & Martens, K. 2013. Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Darwinulidae), with the description of a new species, V. carinata n. sp., from the island of Florianópolis, Brazil. Zootaxa 3666(1): 62–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.1.6 Reference page.