Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes
Author
Kornicker, Louis S.
Author
Iliffe, Thomas M.
Author
Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-08-31
1565
1
1
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1565.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1565.1.1
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Dantya
Kornicker & Cohen 1978
Type
species.
Dantya magnifica
Kornicker & Cohen 1978
.
Composition and distribution.
The genus includes eight species: one species from Carrie Bow Cay,
Belize
(
D. magnifica
Kornicker & Cohen 1978
), four species from the western Indian Ocean (
D. fossula
Kornicker 1983
,
D. benthedi
Kornicker 1983
,
D. piercei
Kornicker 1983
,
D. dux
Kornicker
1998
in
Kornicker & Thomassin 1998
), one species from the Southwest Florida shelf (
D. heardi
Kornicker 1986
),
D. ferox
Kornicker & Iliffe 1989d
from a sea cave on the island of
Niue
, central South Pacific, and
D. tryx
Kornicker 1994
from off Southeast
Australia
. A key to species of the genus is presented in
Kornicker and Thomassin 1998
. A juvenile collected herein on the Great Bahama Bank is left in open nomenclature as
Dantya
sp. A
.