Cypridopsis vidua (O.F. Müller 1776) Brady 1868

Scott-Frías, Joxmer, González, Ernesto, Pardo, María José, Torres, Rubén, Higuti, Janet, Cohuo, Sergio & López, Carlos, 2023, An updated checklist of recent non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Venezuela, Zootaxa 5369 (4), pp. 485-512 : 493

Cypridopsis vidua (O.F. Müller 1776) Brady 1868

Cypridopsis vidua — Bold 1964: 11, table II; C. vidua — Martens & Behen 1994: 26.

Synonyms: Cypris vidua O.F. M̧ller 1776; a full list of synonyms can be reviewed in Meisch et al. (2019).

Type locality: surroundings of Copenhagen , Denmark (55º40’ N, 12º33’ E). No known repository for the material .

In Venezuela: at the following locality according to Bold (1964): ARAGUA and CARABOBO states—no details of location, Lago de Valencia (GN 10º10’46” N, 67º43’52” W) .

Remarks: the species has a cosmopolitan distribution ( Meisch et al. 2019). Its geographical distribution in the Neotropics includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Caribbean Islands, and Venezuela ( Martens & Behen 1994). The record for Venezuela comes from material recovered from recent sediments ( Bold 1964). Broodbakker (1983d) records C. aff. vidua as an accompanying fauna of Pseudocandona geratsi .