Geocythere Hart, 1962

Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), Zootaxa 4448 (1), pp. 1-129 : 71-72

Geocythere Hart, 1962

1959 Geophila Group.—Hart: 195 (T).

1962 Geophila Group.—Hobbs & Walton: 44 (R).

1962 Geocythere , new genus.—Hart: 125, 134–135 (C, K, T).

1963 Geocythere .—Hart: 51 (C).

1965a Geocythere ( Hart, 1962: 134) .—Hart: 255 (H).

1965 Geocythere .—Hobbs: 161 (K).

1966 Geocythere Hart (1962) .—Hobbs & Hart: 37 (K).

1967 Geocythere .—Hobbs: 3 (R).

1967 Geocythere .—Hobbs, Holt & Walton: 8 (H).

1968 Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Ferguson: 502 (C).

1969a Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: 180, 181, 187, Figs. 1 , 5, 15 (D, H, R, T).

1969b Geocythere .—Hart & Hart: 155, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, Figs. 5–8 (R, T).

1969a Geocythere .—Hobbs: 170 (R).

1970 Geocythere Hart, 1962:134 .—Hobbs: 172, 175, 179, 181, 182 (A, C, R).

1970 Geocythere, Hart, 1962:134 .—Hobbs & Hobbs: 1, 2, 13, 15, Fig. 8 (C, D, K).

1971 Geocythere Hart, 1962:134 .—Hobbs Jr.: 19, 53 (C).

1974 Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: vii, 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 19, 94–95, 100, 101, 106, 107, Figs. 11–14, 26 (D, H, K, R, T).

1974 Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Hartmann & Puri: 50 (C).

1975 Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: 35–36 (C, D, H).

1982 Geocythere .—Hobbs III: 2 (D).

1990 Geocythere .—Cohen & Morin: 197 [as Geocythere sp.], Fig. 5D (T).

2010 Geocythere Hart, 1962 .—Smith & Delorme: 748, 771 (C, K).

2017 Geocythere .—Weaver & Williams: 578 (K).

Remarks: Hart & Hart (1974: 95) mistakenly list the hosts of Geocythere as “crayfishes of the family

Astacidae .” Geocythere is known only from crayfishes in the family Cambaridae . This error was repeated by Hart & Hart (1975: 36).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Ankylocythere ancyla (NCSM 29785), adult male, from Bladen County, North Carolina, USA. Inset shows a magnified view of a terminal claw of a thoracic leg, specifically, a fifth appendage.