(Skogsberg, 1920)

Diagnosis
Length female 1.65-1.71mm, male unknown. Described from Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. Another closely related form was described, inadequately, by Brady and Norman, 1896 as Asterope elliptica from Valentia in Eire which may prove to be synonymous.

Remarks
This is one of the fifteen species within the Cypridinidae which are superficially keyed-out in this program.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Subclass Ostracoda
Order Myodocopida
Suborder Myodocopina
Family Cylindroleberidae
Subfamily Cylindroleberinae
Genus Parasterope
Species Parasterope aberrata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Parasterope aberrata (Skogsberg, 1920)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Asterope aberrata Skogsberg, 1920

Brady, G. S. and Norman, A. M. 1896. A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of Northwestern Europe. Sections 2-4: Myodocopa, Cladocopa, Platycopa. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series 2, 5, 353-374.

Skogsberg, T. 1920. Studies on marine ostracods. Part 1. (Cypridinids, halocyprids and polycopids). Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala supplement 1: 1-784.

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