Cytherellidae

{{Short description|Family of seed shrimps}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Jurassic|Recent}} | taxon = Cytherellidae | authority = G. O. Sars, 1866<ref>{{cite journal |author=G. O. Sars |year=1866 |title=Oversigt af Norges marine Ostracoder |journal=Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania |pages=1–130}}</ref> | synonyms = * Cytherelloidae [lapsus] * †Spinososioellidae Kozur, 1991 }}

'''Cytherellidae''' is the only living family of the ostracod order Platycopida.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author=S. Brandao & D. Horne |year=2009 |title=Cytherellidae |id=127486 |db=Ostracoda |accessdate=April 9, 2010}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nXFkzGkIvAIC&dq=Cytherellidae+single+extant+family+Platycopida&pg=PA191 Ostracodology - Linking Bio- and Geosciences Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda]</ref> Eyes are absent.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=122207 | year=2002 | last1=Oakley | first1=T. H. | last2=Cunningham | first2=C. W. | title=Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent evolutionary origin of an arthropod compound eye | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume=99 | issue=3 | pages=1426–1430 | doi=10.1073/pnas.032483599 | pmid=11818548 | bibcode=2002PNAS...99.1426O | doi-access=free }}</ref> It contains 11 genera:<ref name="WoRMS"/> *†''Abursus'' Loranger, 1954 *†''Alveus'' Hamilton, 1942 *†''Ankumia'' Veen, 1932 *''Cytherella'' Jones, 1849 *''Cytherelloidea'' Alexander, 1929 *†''Geelongella'' McKenzie, Reyment & Reyment, 1991 *''Grammcythella'' Swanson ''et al.'', 2005 *''Inversacytherella'' Swanson ''et al.'', 2005 *''Keijcyoidea'' Malz, 1981 *''Platella'' Coryell & Fields, 1937 *†''Staringia'' Veen, 1936

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Category:Ostracod families Category:Podocopa Category:Extant Jurassic first appearances