Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Oligostraca > Class Ostracoda > Subclass Podocopa > Order Podocopida > Suborder Cytherocopina

Cytheroidea Baird, 1850

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bythocytheridae Sars, 1926
Cobanocytheridae Schornikov, 1975
Cuneocytheridae Mandelstam, 1959
Cushmanideidae Puri, 1974 in Hartmann & Puri, 1974
Cytheridae Baird, 1850
Cytherideidae Sars, 1925
Cytheroidea incertae sedis
Cytheromatidae Elofson, 1939
Cytheruridae Müller, 1894
Entocytheridae Hoff, 1942
Eucytheridae Puri, 1954
Hemicytheridae Puri, 1953
Keysercytheridae Karanovic & Brandão, 2015
Krithidae Mandelstam, 1958
Leptocytheridae Hanai, 1957
Limnocytheridae Klie, 1938
Loxoconchidae Sars, 1925
Microcytheridae Klie, 1938
Neocytheridae Wilkinson, 1988
Neocytherideididae Puri, 1957
Paracytherideidae Puri, 1957
Paradoxostomatidae Brady & Norman, 1889
Parvocytheridae Hartmann, 1959
Progonocytheridae Sylvester-Bradley, 1948
Psammocytheridae Klie, 1938
Thaerocytheridae Hazel, 1967
Trachyleberididae Sylvester-Bradley, 1948
Xestoleberididae Sars, 1928

Literature

original description	Baird, W. (1850). The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. Ray Society, London. 364 pp, pls. 1-36.
basis of record	Horne, D.J.; Bruce, A.; Whittaker, J.E. (2001). Ostracoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 244-251

Genbank

Citation

Brandão, S.N.; Antonietto, L.S; Nery, D.G.; Pereira, J.S.; Praxedes, R.A.; Santos, S.G.; Karanovic, I. (2025). World Ostracoda Database. Cytheroidea Baird, 1850. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127477