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The ontogeny of the platycopid Keijcyoidea infralittoralis (Ostracoda: Podocopa)
Authors:REIKO OKADA  AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI  ROBIN J. SMITH   DAVID J. HORNE
Affiliation:Institute of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Oya 836, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka-city, 422-8529 Japan;
Lake Biwa Museum, 1091 Oroshimo-cho, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-0001, Japan;
Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Abstract:Platycopid ostracods such as the genus Keijcyoidea Malz, 1981 (Family Cytherellidae) have a unique body plan and are regarded as a phylogenetically ancient lineage. Their ontogeny, which is important in considering phylogenetical relationships, is very poorly known except for the growth of the carapace; there are nine instars including the adult, as in other podocopan groups. All appendages in all immature instars (A-8 to A-1) of Keijcyoidea infralittoralis Tsukagoshi, Okada & Horne, 2006 are described and illustrated here. The anlagen of the copulatory organs and the sexual dimorphism of carapace size appear in the sixth (A-3) instar, whereas sexual dimorphism in both the fifth and the sixth limbs, a distinctive feature of adults, is not clearly evident until the eighth (A-1) instar. Appendages are added at the moults between the second (A-7) and third (A-6), and between the fifth (A-4) and sixth (A-3) instars. The seventh limb, which platycopid ostracods have lost in the adult stage, is observed as an anlage in the sixth (A-3) and seventh (A-2) instars. During the other moults, there are no significant changes to the body plan. The ontogeny of the Platycopida is compared with that of the Podocopida, and strongly suggests that the phylogenetic position of the Platycopida is as an end-member of the Podocopa. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2008, 153 , 213–237.
Keywords:anlage    development    instar    moult    phylogeny    Platycopida
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