Four new species of the subfamily Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from freshwater habitats in Japan

Three species of the genus Pseudocandona Kaufmann, 1900 and one of the genus Undulacandona Smith, 2011, collected from freshwater habitats in Japan, are described. The Pseudocandona species, Pseudocandona becca sp. nov., Pseudocandona atmeta sp. nov. and Pseudocandona falcula sp. nov., all belong to the rostrata-group. Previous reports of Pseudocandona rostrata (Brady & Norman, 1889) and Pseudocandona sarsi (Hartwig, 1899) from Japan are reassessed and are subsequently synonymized with Pseudocandona tenuirostris Hiruta & Mawatari, 2013 and Pseudocandona falcula sp. nov. respectively. Undulacandona colymba sp. nov. is only the second to be described in this genus. Like the type species of the genus, it is a stygobiont, collected from groundwater in Shiga Prefecture. Additional records of Candona candida (O.F. Müller, 1776), are presented herein; so far, Japanese records of this species are restricted to the eastern part of Hokkaido.

Metadaten
Author:	Robin James Smith, Takahiro Kamiya
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-459552
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.136
ISSN:	2118-9773
Parent Title (English):	European journal of taxonomy : 137
Series (Serial Number):	European journal of taxonomy : EJT (137)
Publisher:	Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Place of publication:	Paris
Document Type:	Part of Periodical
Language:	English
Year of Completion:	2015
Year of first Publication:	2015
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2018/03/29
Tag:	Candoninae; Japan; Pseudocandona; Taxonomy; Undulacandona
Page Number:	34
Dewey Decimal Classification:	5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
Sammlungen:	Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte
Licence (German):	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0

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