Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Oligostraca > Class Ostracoda > Subclass Myodocopa > Order Myodocopida > Suborder Myodocopina > Superfamily Cypridinoidea > Family Cypridinidae > Subfamily Cypridininae > Tribe Gigantocypridinini

Gigantocypris Müller, 1895

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gigantocypris danae Poulsen, 1962
Gigantocypris dracontovalis Cannon, 1940
Gigantocypris muelleri Skogsberg, 1920

Literature

original description	Mueller, G. W. (1895). Reports on the dreging operations off the west coast of central America to the Galapagos to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission streamer “Albatross”, during 1891. In: U. S. F. C. Marshall McDonald (Ed), Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Printed for the Museum, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 155–169.
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
additional source	Blachowiak-Samolyk, K. & M. Angel. An atlas of Southern Ocean planctonic ostracods. http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/ostracoda/index.php.

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. Gigantocypris Müller, 1895. 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:127522