POLYCOPIDAE Sars, 1866

Tanaka, Hayato & Tsukagoshi, Akira, 2013, The taxonomic utility of the male upper lip morphology in the ostracod genus Parapolycope (Crustacea), with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 47 (13 - 14), pp. 963-986 : 964

Family POLYCOPIDAE Sars, 1866

Genus Parapolycope Klie, 1936

Type species. Parapolycope germanica Klie, 1936 .

Diagnosis

Carapace oval, narrow, thin and translucent; female with circular upper lip; antennula with four podomeres; exopodite of antenna nine podomeres, endopodite three podomeres; coxal endites of the mandibula with few sharp teeth, palpus (basis and endopodite) with three indistinct podomeres, button-shaped last podomere carries two setae, exopodite present as one seta; endopodite and exopodite of maxillula strongly shortened; exopodite of fifth limb reduced to a wide bristle; furca with reduced number of claws; male, upper lip with strong chitinous hook; one ventral seta with large disk-shaped sucker on the last podomere in antennula; both lamellae of furca with a flagellum, with the left one considered to be a modified copulatory duct.