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SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY NUMBER 141

Morphology of Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a Discussion of the Genus

I. G. Sohn and Louis S. Kornicker

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1973

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I. G. Sohn and Louis S. Kornicker. Morphology of Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a Discussion of the Genus. Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology, number 141, 28 pages, 18 figures, 1973.—All 34 species previously referred to Cypretta are reviewed, and four of these are removed from the genus because they lack the characteristic anterior septate margins. The morphology of septa along the anterior margins is discussed and illustrated. The life cycle of C. kawatai was observed in the laboratory, where the species proved to be parthenogenetic. Ontogenetic studies showed the following: in dorsal view the outline changes from pointed ends and greatest width at approximate midlength in early stages to a blunter posterior end and greatest width at a distance of approximately one-third from the posterior end in adults; the lateral outline changes from subtriangular in early stages to subovate in adults. The following characters are restricted to adults: septate anterior margins; ventroposterior nodes on the right valve and opposing scalloped structures on the left valve; columns on the anterior margin of both valves that are either superposed on or adjacent to the septa and are present on the ventroposterior margin of the right valve only. A lectotype is designated for Cypretta globulosa (Sharpe, 1910), considered here to be a valid species.

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Morphology of Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a Discussion of the Genus

I. G. Sohn and Louis S. Kornicker

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I. G. Sohn, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington. D.C. 20242 [Publication authorized by the Director, U.S. Geological Survey.] Louis S. Kornicker, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560.

Introduction

We have previously described (Sohn and Kornicker, 1972a) laboratory experiments demonstrating that the species Cypretta kawatai is an effective predator of 1- to 3-day-old Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818), a vector snail of the blood fluke that causes the tropical and subtropical disease schistosomiasis.

Because of the growing interest in the biological control of trematode diseases, additional studies of the predation behavior of ostracodes may be undertaken; consequently, we present here a detailed morphologic analysis of C. kawatai. Our study of the genus Cypretta Vávra, 1895, disclosed certain species that we do not consider to belong in this genus. Cypretta globulosa (Sharpe, 1910) is redefined and a lectotype is designated.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.—We wish to thank Dr. F. Ferguson, Tropical Disease Section, U.S. Public Health Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the information that the strain of snails that we used originated in Brazil, and Mr. Ichiro Okubo, Okayama Shujitsu Junior College, Japan, for an unidentified species of Cypretta for comparison. We thank Prof. R. V. Kesling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for specimens of Cypridopsis vidua and Prof. G. Hartmann, Hamburg, Germany, for a copy of a paper by W. Klie (1941). Our colleagues R. H. Benson and J. M. Berdan reviewed the paper, and J. E. Hazel made available photographic equipment for transmitted light. W. R. Brown, Smithsonian Institution, made the scanning electron microscope pictures; R. P. Christian, U.S. Geological Survey, made the electron microprobe picture; and H. E. Mochizuku printed all the negatives. Carolyn B. Gast prepared the drawings of appendages and Elinor Stromberg composed the figures.

Family CYPRIDIDAE Baird, 1845

Tribe CYPRETTINI Hartmann, 1964

Hartmann (1964:128) included in this tribe Paracypretta Sars, 1924, and “Prionocypris.” The latter is probably a typographical error for Pionocypris Brady and Norman, 1896, because Prionocypris Brady and Norman, 1896, has a well-developed furca.

McKenzie (1971a: 159) elevated the tribe Cyprettini Hartmann, 1964, to subfamily status as Cyprettinae and established the tribe Bradycyprini to include the two genera Bradycypris Sars, 1924, and Paracypretta Sars, 1924. He based this elevation on the presence of very slender furcae, better developed than those in the Cypridopsinae, and the presence of radial septa along the anterior margins of one or both valves. Although it is reasonable to have a subfamily category between the tribe and family categories, the morphology of the genera involved is as yet too poorly known to accept the Cyprettinae as a subfamily. Cypridopsis hartwigi Müller, 1900, for example, has radial septa on the anterior margin, a character diagnostic of the Cyprettini, but the furca is reduced and characteristically cypridopsid.

Genus Cypretta Vávra, 1895

Cypriodopsis (Cypretta) Vávra, 1895:6.

Cypretta Vávra.–Müller, 1898:283.–Furtos, 1934:279 [part].–Gauthier, 1939:226, 228.

TYPE-SPECIES.—By monotypy: Cypriodopsis (Cypretta) tenuicauda Vávra (1895:7, fig. 2, pts. 1–3.) Zanzibar.

TABLE 1.—Appendages that have been illustrated in species of Cypretta in addition to C. kawatai.

DIAGNOSIS.—Small, less than 1 mm in greatest length, globulose, smooth, punctate or reticulate ostracodes; right valve larger, with septate anterior margins in adults; furca with two narrow elongated claws, ventral seta present or absent, one dorsal seta (except Cypretta judayi Tressler, 1937, which has two); ovary coiled at its inception.

DISCUSSION.—Furtos (1934:279) listed 14 species referable to Cypretta. Later, Furtos (1936:494) expanded the dichotomous, 11-species key constructed by Müller (1912:204) to include 21 species and excluded Cypridella lemurensis Vávra, 1895. In addition to Cypretta kawatai, 34 species are referred herein to Cypretta. Unfortunately, the appendages of only a few species have been illustrated (Table 1).

Table 1 shows that all the appendages of only one species, C. globula (Sars, 1889), were illustrated. In order to gain some insight concerning the range of variability of the individual appendages, we have dissected more than 10 individuals of C. kawatai in various stages of growth and two syntypes of C. globulosa (Sharpe, 1910). All of our dissections are of parthenogenetic species; consequently, we have no data on the variation in the male genitalia. On the basis of dissections and the available published information, there appears to be no interspecific variation in the basic construction of the appendages in Cypretta. We did, however, note some minor variations in the details of the second antenna, mandible, and furca that may be of specific value.

Second antenna: We noted interspecific differences in the length of the “sense club” (Kesling, 1951:20, 22) on the ventral side of the first podomere of the endopodite (Figures 1, 11b; Table 2).

Mandible: The outline of the outer surface of the basal podomere appears to be constant within each species and variable between species. This outline cannot be used because its orientation in dissections cannot be controlled; it rotates when the cover glass is placed on the dissection. We noted that the seta on the basal podomere differs (Figure 11c–e) in C. kawatai and in C. globulosa (Sharpe, 1910), but the discrimination of this seta also depends on the orientation of the mandible in the dissection.

Furca: The furca has been illustrated for all the species known in Cypretta. This appendage has been used in keys as a criterion for discriminating many of the species in Cypretta (Müller, 1912; Furtos, 1936; Tressler, 1959). This organ, consisting of two thin terminal claws and two thinner setae, is one of the characteristic features of Cypretta, but the setae are subject to damage during dissection (McKenzie, 1966:274; and our experience) and possibly also in nature. The presence or absence of one or the other seta, therefore, is not a good criterion for specific determination unless intraspecific variability is known. Gauthier (1939:221, figs. 19e,f) illustrated the furca of two individuals of C. murati Gauthier, 1939, of which one did not have the dorsal seta and the other did not have the ventral seta. However, the relative sizes of the claws and setae, when present, may be used in discriminating the species.

TABLE 2.—Length of “sense-club” of second antenna in eleven specimens of five species of Cypretta in the National Museum of Natural History.

Shell structure: Triebel (1963) discussed the various interpretations of the “septate” structure characteristic of the anterior margins of Cypretta and concluded that they are indeed vertical struts that connect the infold with the outer lamella. We have determined that the septate anterior margins are present in C. kawatai only in the adult stage, as can be seen in Figures 2, 4, 5d–f, 8, 9, 14, 17, 18. We examined valves of C. kawatai with transmitted light, with scanning electron microscope, and determined the calcium content of the septa with an electron probe. We concur with Triebel that the septa connect the inner sides of the outer lamella and the infold. Figure 3 shows that calcium is present at the contact of the septum with the outer lamella and the infold. In lateral and medial views the septa appear to be connected to each other at their proximal ends by an arch (Figures 8j,k). The arch is caused by a slight thickening of the inner surface of the infold between the proximal ends of the septa (Figure 4).

Triebel (1953, 1963) noted that Stenocypris Sars, 1889, also has septate anterior margins. These, however, differ from those in Cypretta in that they are present around the entire free margins and do not have arches between them at their proximal ends when viewed laterally or medially. Study of the growth stages of C. kawatai, here illustrated, disclosed the fact that the infold is strongly calcified, that the inner margin is well defined by the list in all the preadult stages (Figures 8a,c–f; 14, 17), and that the infold in adults differs in that the inner margin is not well defined along the anterior (Figures 5a–f; 8k; 18a,b,f,i,l). We assume that the loss of a well-defined inner margin along the anterior is the result of the infold becoming progressively less calcified proximally. This is permitted by the development of the septate structure (Figure 4b). The subconcentric striae on the external surface of the infold are reflected also on the internal surface of the infold, and they appear to be present only in adults (compare Figures 14 and 17 with Figure 18). These striae are present in other genera in the Cyprididae. Triebel (1953, pl. 1: fig. 4) showed these striations in Stenocypris major (Baird, 1859), and we illustrate them (Figure 5a–c) in Cypridopsis vidua (O. F. Müller, 1776). These photographs show that in Cypretta the first two striae proximal to the list are concentric and subparallel to the list and do not anastomose, and those proximal to the first two striae anastomose. Kesling (1951:66, fig. 7) described and illustrated the anastomosing striae (which he called “grooved area”) in Cypridopsis vidua.

FIGURE 1.—“Sense club” of second antenna: a, Cypretta kawatai, holotype (USNM 139850); b, C. globulosa (Sharpe, 1910), lectotype (USNM 39514), habitat in doubt; c, C. intonsa Furtos, 1936, paratype (USNM 71380) from Florida; d, C. nukuhivana Furtos, 1934, paratype (USNM 68067) from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands; e, C. judayi Tressler, 1937, holotype (USNM 71517), from northern Celebes Island. (Magnification in b–e is the same.)

FIGURE 2.—Cypretta kawatai. Series of inside views of anterior and posterior margins showing differences between instars and adults and between left and right valves. A–3? instar: a, right anterior; b, left anterior; c, right posterior; d, left posterior. A–1 instar: e, right anterior; f, left anterior; g, right posterior; h, left posterior. Two adult paratypes (USNM 140961): i, m, right anterior; j, n, left anterior; k, o, right posterior; l, p, left posterior.

FIGURE 3.—Cypretta kawatai. Electron probe photograph (approximately × 5500) of a polished surface through the anterior of the left valve of an adult carapace showing the distribution of calcium in the septa wall, shell, and infold.

Nodes along the ventroposterior margin of the right valve were originally illustrated for Cypretta lutea McKenzie, 1966, Cypridella remota Vávra, 1906 [=Cypretta remota (Vávra, 1906)], Cypretta reticulata Lowndes, 1932, C. sarsi Brady, 1902, and C. seurati Gauthier, 1929. Similar nodes were originally illustrated on the left valve of C. baylyi McKenzie, 1966, and were recorded in Cypridopsis globulus Sars, 1889 [=Cypretta globula (Sars, 1889)]. In C. kawatai, nodes along the ventroposterior margin of the right valve were not observed by us on juvenile specimens as large as 0.65 mm in greatest length; they are poorly developed in some adults but well developed in others (Figures 2k,o; 5d; 18b,l,m).

SPECIES REMOVED.—Gauthier (1939:229) noted that the left valve overlaps the right valve in C. brevisaepta Furtos, 1934, C. bilicis Furtos, 1936, and C. nigra Furtos, 1936, and he suggested that these species might be referred to a new genus. To these should be added C. schubarti Farkas, 1959, and Cypridopsis raciborskii Grochmalicki, 1915. Although Brehm (1949:104) did not agree with this concept, our examination of Furtos’ three species indicates that they indeed do not belong in Cypretta.

Cypretta brevisaepta brevisaepta Furtos, 1934, is represented by many paratypes (USNM¹ 68159), and we opened a gravid female in order to examine the marginal structures. The anterior margin does not contain septa that are typical of Cypretta; it contains funnel-shaped radial pore canals, each with a hair passing through it (Figure 6). The “nine to thirteen short, inconspicuous, radiating septa” that Furtos (1936:495) ascribed to this species are represented in the valve by 22 circular expressions of the diameters (about 0.02 mm) of the funnel-shaped radial canals and are not typical septa of Cypretta as shown in Figure 4.

Cypretta nigra Furtos, 1936, is represented only by the holotype, a female (USNM 71379), the valves of which are preserved in alcohol. The right valve has 24 funnel-shaped radial pore canals that are similar to those of the previously illustrated species.

FIGURE 4.—Cypretta kawatai. a, Medial view (× 330) of fragment of anterior of left valve with part of the infold removed. Note normal pores on shell continuing into septate area, infold with concentric striae, and edges of septa as darker areas. Paratype, USNM 140962: b, oblique view (× 625) into fragment of anterior of left valve showing septa. Note striae and collapsed proximal thinner part of infold. The thickening of the infold at the proximal end of the second septum from the right represents the arch shown in c. The five mounds on the infold subparallel and removed from the margin may be due to the pillars within the anterior margin, c, Diagram showing our interpretation of the septate structure.

Cypretta bilicis Furtos, 1936, is represented by the holotype, an undissected female (USNM 71377), and by a dissected male paratype without the valves preserved (USNM 71378). The vial with the holotype, however, contained also fragments of shell of a male, determined by fragments of testes adhering to part of the anterior and ventral margins. The holotype does not show any septa when viewed from the outside, but the fragment of the male, possibly belonging to the dissected paratype, has at least 16 funnel-shaped radial pore canals similar to those illustrated for “Cypretta” brevisaepta (Figure 6).

On the basis of the absence of a septate anterior margin and of the left-over-right valve overlap along the anterior, we conclude that these three species do not belong in Cypretta and should be removed to a distinct genus.

FIGURE 5.—Inside views of right valve: a–c, Cypridopsis vidua (O. F. Müller, 1776), adult (USNM 140963) from Ann Arbor, Michigan; d–f, Cypretta kawatai, adult paratype (USNM 140964). (Magnification: a, d, × 65; b, × 250; c, × 1000; e, × 125, f, × 500.)

FIGURE 6.—Cypretta brevisaepta brevisaepta Furtos, 1934, adult paratype (USNM 139290) from Florida: Anterior of right valve showing marginal canals.

Cypretta schubarti Farkas, 1959, was described as “Auf dem vorderen Teil der rechten Schale sind Chitinverdickungen, Septa zu finden, die auf der linken Schale, sowie auf den Schalen den Männchen fehlen oder kaum wahrnehmbar sind” (Farkas, 1959:277). Illustrations by Farkas do not show any septa but clearly indicate that the left valve overlaps the right along the anterior. The same is true for Cypridopsis reciborskii Grochmalicki, 1915, which was referred to Cypretta by Furtos (1936: 494).

Males have been recorded in the following species: Cypretta bilicis Furtos, 1936, C. brevisaepta Furtos, 1934, C. nigra Furtos, 1936, C. schubarti Farkas, 1959, C. reticulata Danforth, 1948, not Lowndes, 1932 (=C. brevispina Farkas, 1959), C. foveata Hartmann, 1964, C. lindbergi Hartmann, 1964, and C. margalefi Brehm, 1949. Petkovski (1957:53) identified males in C. seurati Gauthier, 1929. The first four of these species were eliminated from Cypretta in our discussion of left-over-right overlap, and C. brevispina Farkas, 1959, also does not belong in Cypretta. The holotype and allotype of C. brevispina are in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (USNM 90718, 90719) and we have examined them. The presence of ovaries and eggs proves that the holotype is an adult. However, because the valves of both holotype and allotype have no vestige of septa along the anterior margins, this species has to be removed from Cypretta, and from the Cyprettini. Incidentally, Danforth’s (1948, pl. 2) illustration of C. reticulata is mislabeled “Cypriconcha barbata Sars 1926 (non Cypris barbatus Forbes 1938).” Hartmann’s two species apparently belong in Cypretta, but the information is inadequate to confirm Brehm’s species and Petkovski’s males of C. seurati Gauthier, 1929.

ONTOGENY.—The only mention of juveniles in Cypretta is by McKenzie (1966:273), who examined, but presumably did not dissect, a juvenile of Cypretta sp. McKenzie, 1966. Ghetti (1970) pointed out the importance of distinguishing between adult freshwater ostracodes and preadult stages and cited examples of preadult stages that had been described as distinct species and referred to genera other than the ones to which the adults belong. In addition to the presence of fully developed genitalia, adults in Cypretta have septa along the anterior margins of both valves (Figures 2, 18). Cypretta nukuhivana Furtos, 1934, is represented in the National Museum of Natural History by many paratypes (USNM 68066). The recorded length for this species was 0.60 mm (Furtos, 1935:281), but a right and left valve with septate anterior margins that we examined were 0.63 mm and 0.65 mm in greatest length. A smaller right valve with a greatest length of 0.48 mm had no septa on the anterior margin; this valve probably represents the A–2 stage. The ontogeny of C. kawatai will be discussed later, but the fact that septate anterior margins do not form until late in the ontogeny is important because a completely septate anterior margin is an additional criterion for determining adults in this genus. All the previously described species that we consider to belong in Cypretta have septate anterior margins regardless of their size. The lack of septate anterior margins in preadults may, in part, explain the paucity of published data on young stages of Cypretta.

SPECIES RETAINED.—Table 3 lists all the species that we assign to Cypretta, the recorded greatest length, and the recorded geographic occurrences.

GEOLOGIC RANGE.—There are only two records of fossil Cypretta—those of Cypris viridis Thomson, 1879, by Hornibrook (1955), and Cypretta? U 146 by Grekoff (1960). Hornibrook (1955:273, figs. 5, 19, 32) illustrated a specimen as Cypridopsis viridis (Thomson) with a septate anterior that was found in a late Pleistocene white limy clay at 7 feet below the top of the Pyramid Valley Swamp of New Zealand. He very generously sent us a right valve which enabled us to confirm that this species belongs in Cypretta, the genus to which Henry (1923:273) assigned it. Grekoff (1960:39, fig. 4, pl. 7: figs. 49, 50) illustrated a left valve (from the Lower Cretaceous Wealdian-B in the Congo Basin, Africa) in lateral and dorsal views with photographs and line drawings. The generic affinities of the Cretaceous species cannot be determined from the discussion and illustrations. Because Grekoff questioned his generic assignment, the geologic range of Cypretta is Early Cretaceous (?), Pleistocene to Holocene.

TABLE 3.—Species of Cypretta in addition to C. kawatai. (Measurements in parentheses are from Hartmann, 1964.)

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—Cypretta has been considered a tropical and subtropical genus (Furtos, 1935; Danforth, 1948:352), although a few species are recorded from temperate climates. Thomson (1879:258) collected Cypris viridis [=Cypretta viridis] in blocks of ice and recorded that the ostracodes were quite lively as soon as they thawed. Figure 7 shows that species of Cypretta were recorded between latitudes of about 45° north and 50° south. Fox (1965:211, fig. lh) reported C. seurati Gauthier, 1929, in northern Italy as part of the highly adaptable rice-field biota. McKenzie (1971b:224) cited an unpublished record of Cypretta from sub-Antarctic islands.

Our experience with C. kawatai tends to support Sharpe’s hypothesis that the northern record of C. globulosa is spurious. We collected our specimens in aquaria maintained for the breeding of the red mutant (albino) strain of the schistosomiasis vector snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818) at The Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and also at the Department of Medical Zoology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. The Baltimore snails were obtained about five years ago from the Washington laboratory; consequently, we believe that the ostracode was introduced with the snails in the breeding aquaria in Baltimore. According to Dr. F. Ferguson, Tropical Disease Section, U.S. Public Health Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico (verbal communication, September 1971), the albino strain of B. glabrata was first used by Dr. Lobato Paraense in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and snails for breeding were imported from that area. We conclude that Cypretta kawatai was introduced to the United States with the snails, just as it was transported from Washington to Baltimore.

FIGURE 7.—Map showing latitudes (stippled area) within which species of Cypretta have been reported. Species live only in freshwater habitats.

Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972

FIGURES 1a, 2–4. 5d–f, 8–18

Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972a:1258 [deliberate nomen nudum]; 1972b:313, figs. 1–3.

HOLOTYPE.—USNM 139850. Female.

PARATYPES.—USNM 139851, 140953–140962, 140964–140993. Ontogenetic series.

MATERIAL.—Several hundred specimens in all stages of growth.

TYPE-LOCALITY.—Aquaria in The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

HABITAT.—Presumed to be freshwater ponds and ditches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (see discussion).

DIAGNOSIS.—Ends pointed in dorsal outline; length of “sense club” of second antenna 0.040 to 0.048 mm; dorsal seta of furca less than one-fourth of adjacent claw. Males unknown.

DESCRIPTION.—The adult carapace is subovate in lateral outline, the dorsal margin is arched with the apex at approximate midlength, the ventral margin is straight to gently concave, the end margins are convex, and the dorsoanterior margin is long and sloping. The right valve is larger and overlaps and also overreaches the left valve with a protruding flange along the free margins, more so along the anterior margin. Along the midventral margin, the right valve overlap is sinuous with a wide lip, and along the posterior margin the overreach is narrowest; the left valve is slightly curved inward to form a distinct narrow concave nick that is seen best in dorsal and ventral outlines. The dorsal outline is subelliptical with the anterior narrower; the greatest width is slightly behind midlength, from which point the valves curve more sharply toward the anterior and more roundly toward the posterior. In end views the carapace is slightly wider than high, the greatest width approximately at midheight. The surface is finely punctate and sparsely covered with relatively long hairs that do not seem to originate from centers of punctae. A narrow groove is present subparallel to and slightly removed from the edge of the free margins of the right valve.

The adductor muscle-scar consists of six discrete scars: an elongated cap scar (Benson, 1967:217) is oblique and trends toward the ventroposterior; below are three elongated subparallel scars and two shorter scars. Ventrad and anterior to the musclescars are two elongated mandibular scars (Figures 8b,l, 9).

The hinge is bipartite. The part in front of the approximate greatest height consists of the edge of the left valve that fits into a wide shallow groove in the right (Figure 9a); the part behind the approximate greatest length is straight, about twice the length of the anterior part, and consists of a narrow groove in the left valve into which the dorsal edge of the right valve fits. Below the dorsal edge of the right valve is a narrow accommodation groove for the reception of the ridge along the ventral boundary of the groove in the left valve (Figure 9b).

The right valve has a relatively wide flange along the anterior margin. This flange narrows along the anteroventral margin and then widens to form a lip at approximately midlength; it then narrows again and continues along the ventroposterior, posterior, and dorsoposterior margins up to the end of the hinge. A narrow list extends from the anterodorsal margin around the entire free margins to the posterior end of the hinge. Along the anterior margin, the list is just proximal to the anterior margins of the septa. An outer wider ridge, which tends to split into ventroposterior nodes, branches from the list just posterior to the ventral lip of the flange.

FIGURE 8.—Cypretta kawatai. Paratype, USNM 140953, left valve of instar A–3, greatest length 0.45 mm: a, inside view; b, view focused on muscle scar. Paratype, USNM 140954, instar. either A–1 or A–2, greatest length 0.55 mm, inside views: c, right valve; d, left valve; e, right anterior of right valve; f, posterior of right valve. Adult paratype, USNM 140955, right valve, greatest length 0.70 mm: g, anterior in outside view; h, inside view. Adult paratype, USNM 140956: i, anterior half of left valve, greatest length 0.69 mm, inside view. Holotype, USNM 139850: j, anterior portion of left valve showing septa, inside view; k, right valve, greatest length 0.75 mm, inside view of anterior; l, same right valve, inside view showing muscle-scar pattern. (Magnification: d–f, × 240; a–c, g–l, × 120.)

FIGURE 9.—Cypretta kawatai, paratype, USNM 140959, adult carapace, greatest length 0.66 mm, showing the hinge, marginal structures, and muscle scars: a, left valve; b, right valve.

The left valve does not have a flange. The list is absent along the anterior half of the valve. On the posterior half, the list divides at approximately the same point as on the right valve and forms a wide outer ridge that has scallops along its inner margin. These scallops may serve as sockets for the nodes along the ventroposterior of the right valve.

Along the ventroanterior part of the infold of the right valve, the list branches to form a V-shaped groove, and the ventroanterior infold of the left valve bears a short ridge which fits into the V-groove on the opposing valve. A similar structure is present also in Cypridopsis (Figure 5a) and it probably is a family character.

Free margins: The free margins of both valves have branching pore canals (Figure 10). Hairs are present along the end margins of both valves (Figure 2a,c). Both valves have characteristic septate anterior margins, but in C. kawatai these septate margins are quite variable in degree of development (Figures 2i,j,m,n, 8g–k). The septa may be well developed on one valve and poorly developed on the other. The morphology of the septa has been discussed under the genus. We have observed and illustrated short pillars, less than half the length of the septa, within the anterior margins of each valve (Figure 2j,m,n). These structures may have been overlooked in previously described species because each is either superimposed on or slightly offset from a septum. Similar pillars also are present along the inner margin of the ventro posterior of only the right valve (Figure 2o,p). On some valves (Figure 2k) we have observed a pore canal transversing each pillar.

FIGURE 10.—Cypretta kawatai, showing branching pore canals on lip of ventral margin of right valve of adults.

First antenna (Figures 11a, 12a): The limb has seven joints. The first podomere has one dorsal bristle and two ventral bristles, each with short marginal spines. The second podomere has one short dorsal bristle with short marginal spines and a small, faint sensory organ on the ventral margin. The third podomere has two subterminal bristles—one at the dorsal margin, the other at the ventral margin. Both the fourth and fifth podomeres have two long natatory dorsal and two short ventral bristles. The sixth podomere has four long natatory bristles, and the seventh or terminal podomere has three long natatory bristles and one shorter bristle that bears short marginal spines. Podomeres 4–7 have rows of very short spines near the distal margin. The natatory bristles are probably setose, but we could not observe them in ordinary transmitted light, even with oil immersion.

Second antenna (Figures 11b, 12b): The protopodite has two joints. The first podomere has three short spinose bristles. The second podomere has one long spinose bristle medially near the ventral margin and short spines distally on the medial surface.

The exopodite is small and is located laterally near the middle of the terminal margin of the second podomere of the protopodite. It bears three terminal bristles that progressively increase in length from the venter to the dorsum, the dorsal two being spinose.

The endopodite has three joints. The first podomere bears a “sense club” near the ventral margin about two-thirds from the distal end and six distally located bristles near the dorsal margin; five of these bristles are long, plumose, and reach past the terminal claws, and the other bristle is less than half as long and appears to be bare. The medial surface of the podomere is spinose, with longer spines near the base of the bristles. The second podomere has four ventral bristles distal to the middle; the dorsal bristle is short and the other three are about five times longer. The dorsal margin of the second podomere has two bristles near the middle and three long subterminal bristles. Two stout claws bearing marginal teeth are on the terminus of that podomere, and the medial surface bears short spines that form clusters near the base of the bristles. The third or end podomere has one short bristle near the middle of the ventral margin, two stout terminal claws, one slender terminal claw, and one short lateral terminal bristle.

Mandible (Figures 11c–e, 12c–e): The protopodite has two joints. The podomere has teeth in seven rows on the inner distal end and spinose bristles between the rows of teeth. Two longer spinose bristles are present at the inner edge of the toothed end. One short, stout spinose bristle is on the anterior surface proximal to the teeth. The ventral margin of the second podomere has one short, bare bristle, one long, slender bristle with short marginal spines, and two broad, long plumose bristles.

The exopodite is platelike, with one anterior spinose bristle and five terminal spinose bristles.

The endopodite has three joints. The dorsal margin of the first podomere has three subterminal bristles, and the ventral margin has three long spinose bristles near the middle, one broad long terminal bristle, and one short, very stout spinose process with pointed tip. The medial surface of the second podomere has four distal bristles near the dorsal margin. The ventral margin has three terminal bristles, some with marginal spines. The lateral surface of the second podomere has three stout subterminal bristles, and the one nearest to the venter has marginal spines. The third or end podomere has three stout terminal claws. The medial surfaces of the second and third podomeres bear short spines.

Maxilla (Figures 11f,g, 13a): The maxilla consists of a branchial plate, three masticatory processes, and a two-jointed palp. The first joint of the palp has one short lateral bristle and four longer terminal bristles that are near the dorsal margin. The end joint of the palp has five bristles. The outer masticatory process has on the lateral surface a short, broad spinose process. The terminal end of the outer masticatory process has three stout pectinate bristles that are separated by sutures from short pedestals; in addition, there is a slender bristle with marginal spines and there are five bare bristles. The middle masticatory process has seven terminal bristles, which are either smooth or pectinate. The inner masticatory process has two bare bristles proximally on the inner margin. The terminal end of the inner masticatory process has two long pectinate bristles on the inner edge and six shorter bare bristles.

FIGURE 11.—Cypretta kawatai: a, left first antenna of adult, lateral view; b, left second antenna of adult, lateral view; c, left mandible of adult, protopodite and endopodite, lateral view; d, complete left mandible of adult, medial view; e, complete right mandible of instar A–1. lateral view; f, left maxilla of adult, lateral view; g, right maxilla of first leg of instar A–l, lateral view; h, right first leg of instar A–1, lateral view; i, left first leg of instar A–1. medial view; j, rake organs; k, left second leg of adult, distal part, medial view; l, right second and third legs and lurca, medial views; m, right second legs of adult, lateral view; n, right third leg of adult, lateral view; o, furca of holotype; p, furca of adult paratype; q, furca of instar A–1, left lateral view. (Specimens: a, paratype, USNM 140957; b, d, f, l, o, holotype, USNM 139850; c, j, paratype, USNM 140958; e, g, h, q, paratype. USNM 140954; i, paratype, USNM 140956; k, paratype, USNM 140959; m, p, paratype, USNM 140960; n, paratype, USNM, 140955. Magnification: a–d, l, m, × 120; e–l, n–q, × 240.)

First leg (Figures 11g,h, 13b): The limb consists of a protopodite, an endopodite, and an exopodite plate. The distal end of the protopodite has one proximal bristle, three subterminal and ten terminal bristles, all with marginal spines. The ventral margin of the distal part of the protopodite bears hair. Hairs are present also near the base of the three subterminal bristles.

The endopodite has three plumose terminal bristles. The exopodite plate is obscured in our dissections, but it appears to have several faint bristles.

Second leg (Figures 11k–m, 13c): The protopodite has two fused joints. The first podomere is bare; the second podomere has a short, spinose bristle in the middle of the ventral margin.

The endopodite has four joints. The ventral margin of the first podomere is spinose and bears one spinose subterminal bristle. The second podomere has on its ventral margin a long terminal spinose bristle that is about twice the length of the bristle on the first podomere. The third podomere has a short bristle on its ventral margin that reaches just past the distal end of the terminal joint. The terminal or end podomere has a claw slightly longer than the combined three joints of the endopodite. This claw has teeth along the distal part of the concave margin. Near the base of this claw, the terminal podomere has a cluster of spines and one short bristle that is about the same length as the terminal bristle on the previous podomere.

Third leg (Figures 11n, 13d,e): The protopodite has two fused joints. The distal end of the first podomere has one medial bristle. The second podomere has one ventral subterminal bristle and one dorsal terminal bristle.

The endopodite has three joints. The ventral margin of the first podomere has one short terminal bristle. The ventral margin of the second podomere has one bristle near the middle of its length and a toothlike terminal process. Short spines are present along the dorsal margin, on the medial surface, and near the base of the toothlike terminal process. The third podomere is short and has a long backward-pointing, spinose bristle and a short, stout, curved terminal claw with teeth along its concave edge. At the base of the claw is a short lateral bristle. A short toothlike process is present on the third podomere near the ventral edge of the claw. This process appears to be the opposing tooth of the toothlike process on the second podomere.

Furca (Figures 11o–q, 13f): The furcal lamellae are slightly sigmoidal and are relatively slender, with a slight taper toward the distal end. They are 15 times as long as they are wide at their middle. One short spinose dorsal seta is removed by approximately its length from the base of the terminal claw. Each lamella has short spines along the dorsal margin proximal and distal to the dorsal seta. A shorter spinose seta is located ventrad to the terminal claw. The subterminal claw is spinose and about two-thirds the length of the terminal smooth claw.

Rake organs (Figure 11j): The vertical shafts of the rake-shaped organs are about twice as long as the toothed horizontal bar. Each bar bears nine teeth, of which the three teeth nearest the median plane are fused at their bases.

ONTOGENY.—On Nov. 15, 1971, we obtained three gravid females from the aquarium in Dr. Chiang’s office in Baltimore, Md., and placed them on the sill of a south-facing window in a culture dish 75 mm in diameter filled with distilled water, to which CaCO₃ slurry, distilled water, and pieces of lettuce were added when needed. On Dec. 29, 1971, we counted all the living ostracodes in the colony; the results are shown in Table 4. On Feb. 15, 1972, the same colony consisted of a few adults and numerous young in various stages of growth. We believe that the adults and young listed in Table 4 represent the first generation. This could explain the absence in the colony on Dec. 29, 1971, of very young growth stages and the presence of eggs.

FIGURE 12.—Cypretta kawatai, paratype, USNM 140960: a, right first antenna, lateral view; b, right second antenna, medial view; c, right mandible, medial view, except first podomere of protopodite which is in lateral view; d, teeth of right mandible, lateral view; e, second joint of protopodite and endopodite of right mandible, medial view. [Closely packed bristles and claws on several appendages were drawn as they would appear if separated. Magnification same in a–c; same in d, e.]

We obtained a suite of molted valves for measuring by filtering the residue. Many of the valves were decalcified, and they crumpled when touched with a wet brush on the dry filter paper, a phenomenon that we have experienced in working with this species. We did, however, obtain a sufficient variety of solid valves for measurement. Table 5 shows the greatest length, greatest height, and growth stage obtained by measuring selected specimens from this colony. The first three growth stages were not represented by single valves, presumably because in these stages the valves are weakly calcified (Ghetti, 1970:104) and also possibly because they are subject to rapid destruction by both ostracodes and bacteria. We were, however, able to measure the right valve on carapaces that represent the third or A–6 growth stage by drying live individuals in this stage. In order to obtain the size of adults, a gravid female was dissected and the right valve measured. Later, we obtained from the same colony a solid right valve of the A–6 growth stage that measured 0.19 mm in greatest length (Figure 14a–c). The individual represented a generation later than the ones shown in Table 5. We measured four eggs in a clutch obtained when we counted the specimens in the colony derived from three adults. These eggs had an average diameter of 0.12 mm.

FIGURE 13.—Cypretta kawatai. Paratype, USNM 140960: a, right maxilla, lateral view; b, left first leg, medial view; c, left second leg, medial view; d, right third leg, medial view; e, detail of tip of right third leg. Holotype, USNM 139850; f, furca, right lamella, lateral view. [Closely packed bristles and claws on several appendages were drawn as they would appear if separated. Magnification same in a–d; same in e, f.]

TABLE 4.—Number of individuals and stages of growth of live ostracodes produced by three gravid females in 44 days.

TABLE 5.—Length and height measurements (in mm) of right valves of Cypretta kawatai in a single colony.

Figure 15 shows the length-height distribution of the specimens listed in Table 4 and of additional right valves and carapaces. Using the average length of each cluster, which we interpret to represent a single growth stage, we applied the method of calculating growth factors previously described (Sohn, 1950). Table 6 shows the calculated growth factors obtained by using the specimens in Table 4 only and also by using all the specimens on the graph.

TABLE 6.—Calculated growth factors for Cypretta kawatai.

FIGURE 14.—Cypretta kawatai. Paratype, USNM 140974: a–c, right valve, interior views of instar A–6, greatest length 0.19 mm. Paratype, USNM 140975: d–f, left valve, interior views of instar A–5, greatest length 0.27 mm. Paratype, USNM 140976: g–i, right valve, interior views of instar A–5, greatest length 0.27 mm. Paratype, USNM 140977: j, right valve, interior view of instar A–4, greatest length 0.32 mm. Paratype, USNM 140978: k, left valve, interior view of instar A–4, greatest length 0.36 mm. Paratype, USNM 140979: l, left valve of carapace, outside view of instar A–4, greatest length 0.36 mm. Paratype, USNM 140980: m, right valve, interior view of instar A–3, greatest length 0.41 mm. Paratype, USNM 140981: n, right valve, interior view of instar A–2, greatest length 0.50 mm. Paratype, USNM 140982: o, p, left valve, interior view of instar A–2, greatest length 0.47 mm. Paratype, USNM 140983: q–s, right valve, interior view of instar A–1, greatest length 0.55 mm. Many of the valves contain debris. (Magnification: a, × 250; b, c, e, f, h, i, × 625; d, × 175; p, r, s, × 315; g, j–o, q and insets of a and d, × 65.

This table tends to support Sohn’s (1950:431, 433) hypothesis that no single growth factor need apply to all the growth stages in a given species and that it may be difficult to differentiate between growth stages on size alone. Szczechura (1971) reviewed the literature on ostracode growth stages in her study of Heterocypris incongruens (Ramdohr, 1808). She concluded that the growth factor between all the growth stages is constant, and that it is approximately 1.26 for H. incongruens. She further concluded that when measurements of height-length fall in distinct groups on a graph the species lived under stable ecological conditions, and that unstable ecological conditions, such as temperature changes due to seasonal fluctuations, result in indistinct groupings on the graph.

Although we are dealing with few specimens in each growth stage, the presence of both adult and A–1 individuals at the same length of 0.65 mm indicates that Szczechura’s conclusions do not apply to C. kawatai, and, by inference, possibly do not apply to some other freshwater species. Figure 16f shows a carapace of an adult on which we have seen septa along the anterior margin, whereas Figure 17g is of a right valve without septa.

In C. kawatai the dorsal outline changes during the ontogeny of the individual. The probable A–6 instar has pointed ends (Figure 16a), and its greatest width is at approximate midlength; the adult has the anterior end more pointed than the posterior, and its greatest width is at approximately one-third the distance from the posterior end. The lateral outline (Figures 14–18) also changes in the probable A–6 instar from subtriangular (Figure 14a–c) to subovate (Figure 18) through the progressive increase in height of the posterior margin. Septate anterior margins do not form until the adult stage. The detailed morphologic changes of the valves during ontogenetic development are illustrated in Figures 2, 14, 16–18.

LIFE CYCLE.—Eighteen newly hatched larvae were placed in water in individual containers, each with an area of 20 square centimeters. Eighteen days later, 5 of the 12 surviving specimens had laid eggs. Four days later young ostracodes had hatched from some of the eggs. These experiments show that C. kawatai is capable of reproducing parthenogenetically. Ovaries were observed in specimens 14 days after hatching, indicating that this species can mature in as little as 14 days under laboratory conditions. As many as 30 juveniles developed from eggs produced by one individual. A single individual was observed to lay 60 eggs during an 8-day period. According to our observations in the laboratory, the life span of an individual is about 2 months.

FIGURE 15.—Length-height distribution of growth stages of Cypretta kawatai. Crosses represent the specimens listed in Table 4; circles represent additional right valves and carapaces.

FIGURE 16.—Cypretta kawatai. Ontogenetic series showing outlines: a, Dorsal outline of instar, probably A–6, greatest length 0.20 mm (paratype, USNM 140965); b, dorsal outline of instar, probably A–5, greatest length 0.24 mm (paratype, USNM 140966); c, dorsal outline of instar, probably A–4, greatest length 0.41 mm (paratype, USNM 140967); d, dorsal outline of instar, probably A–3, greatest length 0.45 mm (paratype, USNM 140968); e, dorsal outline of instar, probably A–2, greatest length 0.48 mm (paratype, USNM 140969); f, dorsal outline of adult, greatest length 0.65 mm (paratype, USNM 140970); g, dorsal outline of adult (toothlike object near the anterior is an artifact), greatest length 0.67 mm (paratype, USNM 140971); h, posterior portion of the same carapace (note distribution of hair and double nick at the posterior end; the left portion of this nick is the indentation along the left valve, and the right portion marks the line of the overreaching right valve); i, dorsal outline of an adult carapace (hairs were removed with Clorox), greatest length 0.70 mm (paratype, USNM 139851); j, anterior view of adult, greatest length 0.70 mm (paratype, USNM 140972); k–m, posterior, left lateral, and ventral views of adult carapace, greatest length 0.72 mm (paratype, USNM 140973). (Magnification: h, approximately × 125; all others approximately × 65.)

EGGS.—The eggs are whitish and have an average diameter of 0.12 mm. They are deposited in clutches on floating objects such as plants, pieces of lettuce, and strips of plastic and on the sides and bottom of the aquaria. In the laboratory, the eggs hatched in a minimum of four days at room temperature and in a minimum of twelve days at 18°C.

FIGURE 17.—Cypretta kawatai. Paratype, USNM 140984: a–c: interior views of left valve of instar A–1. greatest length 0.57 mm. Paratype, USNM 140985: d–f, interior views of right valve of instar A–1. greatest length 0.60 mm. Paratype, USNM 140986: g, interior view of right valve, anterior, of instar A–1, greatest length 0.65 mm. Paratype, USNM 140987: h, i, interior views of right valve of instar A–1, greatest length 0.65 mm (note the absence of septa along the anterior margin and of nodes along the posterior margin). (Magnification: a, d, h, × 65; b, c, e, f, × 315; g, × 200; i, × 300.)

FIGURE 18.—Cypretta kawatai. Paratype, USNM 140959, adult carapace, greatest length 0.66 mm: a, left valve, interior view; b, c, right valve, interior and lateral views; d, anterior of right valve, lateral view. Paratype, USNM 140988: e, f, left valve of adult, greatest length 0.69 mm. Paratype, USNM 140989: g, right valve, carapace of adult, greatest length 0.70 mm. Paratype, USNM 140990: h–j, right valve of adult, greatest length 0.70 mm, interior views. Paratype, USNM 140991: k–m, right valve of adult, greatest length 0.71 mm, interior views. (Magnification: a–c, f, g, i, l, × 65; d, × 170; e, m, × 250; h, j, × 125; k, × 325.)

Cypretta globulosa (Sharpe, 1910)

FIGURE 1b

Cypris (Cypris) globulosa Sharpe, 1910:335, fig. 1a–d.

Cypretta dubiosa (Daday).–Furtos, 1935[1934]:280.

LECTOTYPE.—USNM 39514, female; appendages and carapace on slides.

PARALECTOTYPES.—USNM 139854; four specimens in alcohol, one specimen dissected.

DIAGNOSIS.—Differs from C. dubiosa (Daday, 1901) in being more rounded and having a higher posterior margin in lateral outline and in having a more pointed posterior in dorsal outline. Differs from C. kawatai in having a longer “sense club.”

DISCUSSION.—Sharpe described this species from specimens collected by Miss Effie J. Rigden from a tub containing several freshwater plants in the greenhouse at the University of Wisconsin. At present there is no record in the University of Wisconsin as to origin and kind of plants that were kept in the greenhouse (Prof. Hugh Iltis, January 1972, written communication); consequently, the habitat of this species is unknown. Furtos (1935: 280) stated that this species “should undoubtedly be referred to Cypretta dubiosa (Daday)” and pointed out that the species can hardly be considered native to Wisconsin.

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