Bairdoppilata, Coryell, Sample and Jennings, 1935

Maddocks, Rosalie F. & Horne, David J., 2024, “ What’s in a name? ” Bairdia fasciata Brady, 1870, and two new Caribbean species of Bairdoppilata (Bairdiidae, Podocopida, Ostracoda), Zootaxa 5448 (3), pp. 371-400 : 376

Genus BAIRDOPPILATA Coryell, Sample and Jennings, 1935

1935 Bairdoppilata Coryell, Sample and Jennings : 3.

1963 Bairdia M’Coy —Morkhoven, p. 32 [part].

1969 Bairdoppilata (Bairdoppilata) Coryell, Sample and Jennings —Maddocks, p. 66.

1995 Bairdoppilata Coryell, Sample and Jennings —Maddocks, p. 215.

2022 Bairdoppilata Coryell, Sample and Jennings —Maddocks, p. 309.

Type species: Bairdoppilata martyni Coryell, Sample & Jennings, 1935 was described from the Chickasawhay Formation of Mississippi (Oligocene). Photographs of a topotype specimen were published by Maddocks (2022, p. 325, figs 15J–L) to supplement the drawing accompanying the original description.

Species Included: The soft anatomy of Bairdoppilata has been described, at least in part, for only 15 named species ( Maddocks 2022, Table 2 ), although many others have been designated from fossil and subfossil specimens.

The most abundant and widespread species of this genus in the northern Caribbean is Ba. cushmani ( Tressler, 1949) , which is the second or third most abundant species of Bairdiidae in many assemblages in the northern and central Caribbean ( Maddocks 2022). The two new species proposed here are widely distributed ( Table 1 ) but less common in most assemblages than Ba. cushmani . Dried fragments of soft parts are available for only one of them. Several additional Caribbean species of Bairdoppilata are uncommon or rare.