Ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) of the Vitoria-Trindade Chain, Southwestern Atlantic Author Luz, Nathália Carvalho Da 0000-0001-5426-2450 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geociências / Paleontologia, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. ncarvalho. luz @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5426 - 2450 & Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, 66077 - 830, Belém-PA, Brasil. ncarvalho.luz@gmail.com Author Coimbra, João Carlos 0000-0002-8980-6531 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Caixa Postal 15001, 91501 - 970, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. joao. coimbra @ ufrgs. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8980 - 6531 joao.coimbra@ufrgs.br text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-20 5188 4 301 329 journal article 148091 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.4.1 a393c65c-bd62-4f10-b6a6-d37eba7b9400 1175-5326 7095512 764AFF3F-2C0A-44C3-A398-31D66535C5AC Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold, 1946 Fig. 4 : 24–25 1946 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold , p. 85, pl. 16, figs. 6–7. 1999a Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Coimbra et al . , p. 372, tab. 1; p. 377, tab. 2. 1999b Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Coimbra et al . , p. 137, fig. 39 (see this paper for a more complete synonymy). 2000 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Keyser & Schöning , p. 571, tab. 1; p. 573; p. 590, pl. 6, figs. 105–107. ?2008 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Perez-Gelabert , p. 25. 2009 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Coimbra et al . , p. 131, tab. 5.3; p. 135, tab. 5.5. 2012 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Munef et al . , p. 153, tab. 2; p. 156, pl. 2, figs. 28–29; p. 157. 2012 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Coimbra & Carreño , p. 194, tab. 2; p. 202, appx 1. 2020 Paracytheridea tschoppi Bold. Machado et al . , p. 13, fig. 10P; p. 16, tab. 1. Figured specimens. MP-O-2847, RV , length: 0.562 mm , height: 0.245 mm ; MP-O-2848, LV, length: 0.554 mm , height: 0.273 mm . Locality. Trindade Island , site Lixo Bay , Sample M17022 N. FIGURE 4. 1–10: Loxocorniculum micropapillosum sp. nov. 1) MP-O-2836, female, RV; 2) MP-O-2835, female, LV, holotype; 3) MP-O-2837, male, RV, paratype; 4) MP-O-2837, male, RV, paratype, papillae detail. 5) MP-O-2837, male, RV, paratype, internal view; 6) MP-O-2835, female, LV, holotype, internal view; 7) MP-O-2837, male, RV, paratype, hinge; 8) MP- O-2835, female, LV, holotype, hinge; 9) MP-O-2837, male, RV, paratype, central muscle scars; 10) MP-O-2838, juvenile, RV, paratype, sieve-type normal pore canal. 11–15: Phlyctocythere christophei sp. nov. 11) MP-O-2839, RV, holotype; 12) MP-O- 2840, LV, paratype; 13) MP-O-2839, RV, holotype, internal view; 14) MP-O-2840, LV, paratype, internal view. 15) MP-O-2840, LV, paratype, central muscle scars. 16–20: Phlyctocythere apua sp. nov. 16) MP-O-2841, RV, holotype; 17) MP-O-2842, LV, paratype; 18) MP-O-2841, RV, holotype, internal view; 19) MP-O-2842, LV, paratype, internal view; 20) MP-O-2842, LV, paratype, central muscle scars. 21–22: Kotoracythere inconspicua . 21) MP-O-2843, RV. 22) MP-O-2844, juvenile, LV. 23) Paracytheridea inflata , MP-O-2845, male, RV. 24–25: Paracytheridea tschoppi . 24) MP-O-2847, RV, female; 25) MP-O-2848, LV, female. Scale bar: 100 µm. Material. Dead assemblage: 291 RV , 319 LV, 14 C, and 49 juveniles . Living assemblage: 1 juvenile . Stratigraphic range. Miocene to Holocene. Occurrence and distribution. In the study area, the species occurs in the seamounts Vitoria and Jaseur and Trindade Island in the following localities: Príncipe Beach, Lixo Bay, Racha Island, Orelhas Bay, Crista do Galo Pool, North Tip, Cabritos Beach, Calheta Beach and Portugueses Bay ( Tabs. 3 and 4 ). It also occurs in other Brazilian territorial waters (Northern, Northeastern and Eastern shelves, and Sepetiba Bay), the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the West African Coast, Reunion Island , Red Sea, Indo-Pacific, Socotra Island , Solomon Islands , and Clipperton Islands. In the fossil record, it occurs in the Caribbean (Early Miocene-Pleistocene), Fiji (Late Miocene), Okinawa (Pliocene), and Java Sea (Plio-Pleistocene). See references in the synonymy list.