Pseudopolycope Chavtur 1981

Kornicker, Louis S., Iliffe, Thomas M. & Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth, 2007, Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes, Zootaxa 1565 (1), pp. 1-151 : 81

Pseudopolycope Chavtur 1981

Type species. Pseudopolycope comandorica Chavtur 1981 .

Composition and distribution. Chavtur (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985) referred 10 species to this genus mainly from the Canadian Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kuril and Commander Islands, Sea of Japan, and the Kuril- Kamchatka Trench ("far east seas and adjacent Pacific regions"), and presented a key to the genus ( Chavtur 1981: 60; 1983: 95). The new species described herein is the first from an anchialine habitat, depth 18 m, and the first member of the genus reported from the Great Bahama Bank. Kornicker (1959: 72) previously reported Eupolycope bahamensis ( Kornicker 1959) ( Chavtur 1981: 55) from shallow water in the vicinity of Bimini, Great Bahama Bank.

Remarks. The new species is referred to the genus Pseudopolycope based on the "Key to the Genera of Polycopinae " in Kornicker & Iliffe (1989b: 68), which is a translation of keys presented in Chavtur (1981: 60; 1983: 95).