''Azygocypridina'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
ostracod
Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typi ...
s in the family
Cypridinidae
Cypridinidae is a family of ostracods, containing the following genera:
*'' Amphisiphonostra'' Poulsen, 1962
*'' Azygocypridina'' Sylvester-Bradley, 1950
*'' Bathyvargula'' Kornicker, 1968
*'' Codonocera'' Brady, 1902
*'' Cypridina'' Milne-Edwa ...
, which appears to be "the least derived living ostracod", having remained largely unchanged for 350 million years. It contains the following species:
*''
Azygocypridina africanus''
(Stebbing, 1902)
*''
Azygocypridina birsteini''
Rudjakov, 1961
*''
Azygocypridina brynmawria''
Diamond, de Forges & Kornicker, 2008
*''
Azygocypridina gibber''
(Muller, 1906)
*''
Azygocypridina grimaldii''
(Granata, 1919)
*''
Azygocypridina imperator''
(Brady, 1880)
*''
Azygocypridina imperialis''
(Stebbing, 1901)
*''
Azygocypridina lowryi''
Kornicker, 1985
*''
Azygocypridina ohtai''
Hiruta, 1981
*''
Azygocypridina rudjakovi''
Kornicker, 1970
References
Myodocopida
Ostracod genera
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