(Baird, 1838)

Description:
Valves finely punctate, with conspicuous normal pores; lineate and often faintly reticulate ventrally. Central opaque patch large, elongate, constricted or subdivided in front of the central muscle scar field. Sexual dimorphism pronounced, male considerably longer than female. Male copulatory appendage with a tapering, somewhat sinuous distal process and a moderately long ejaculatory duct (H. albomaculata 7 ).

Habitat:
In littoral and sublittoral waters around the British Isles, often abundant in rock pools.

Distribution:
A common phytal marine species, it ranges from N Norway to the Mediterranean, but many records from the latter area can be referred to other species (see Athersuch, 1979).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Subclass Ostracoda
Order Podocopida
Suborder Podocopina
Superfamily Cytheracea
Family Hemicytheridae
Genus Heterocythereis
Species albomaculata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Heterocythereis albomaculata (Baird, 1838)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cythere alba Baird, 1835
Cythere albo-maculata Baird, 1838
Cythereis (Heterocythereis) albomaculata Elofson, 1941

Athersuch, J., Horne, D.J. & J.E. Whittaker, 1989. Marine and Brackish Water Ostracods. Synopses of the British Fauna (N.S.), 43.

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