Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 1967 Number 3580 



THE MYODOCOPID OSTRACOD FAMILIES PHILOMEDIDAE 

 AND PSEUDOPHILOMEDIDAE (NEW FAMILY) 



By Louis S. Kornicker 



Associate Curator, Division oj Crustacea 



Introduction 



The Pseudophilomedidae, new family, is represented in the oceans 

 of the world by only one genus, Pseudophilomedes MuUer, 1894, con- 

 taining 4 species: 2 in the Mediterranean Sea (Miiller, 1894), 1 in the 

 eastern Atlantic (Brady and Norman, 1896), and 1 in the western 

 Atlantic (Kornicker, 1959). 



The ^vriter recently received 17 specunens of Pseudophilomedes 

 ferulanus Kornicker, 1959, as part of a collection of ostracods obtained 

 by Dr. John H. Day from the Atlantic Shelf off Beaufort, N.C. 

 Four additional specimens from the same area were in a collection 

 made in 1964 by personnel on the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 R/V Gosnold. This material has been used to supplement 3 specimens 

 collected from the Great Bahama Bank, upon which the original 

 description was based (Kornicker, 1959). 



I have taken this opportunity to review the genus. Specimens of 

 Pseudophilomedes joveolatus Muller, 1894, the type species of Pseudo- 

 philomedes, were borrowed from the Zoological Museum, BerUn, and 

 the original description by Muller (1894) is supplemented in this paper. 



Specimens identified by Brady and Norman (1896) as males of 



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