KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:0O (5. 9 
16. 
A NEW FRESH-WATER OSTRACOD. 
TAGE SKOGSBERG. 
Yhe following species is described from specimens in a small collection of Ostra- 
| cods brought home from Australia by Dr. Eric MJÖBERG. In addition to this 
species this collection also contained some marine forms of the family Cypridi- 
nmde which will be treated in a later paper that I am preparing on marine Ostracods. 
The collection was kindly sent to me for examination by Dr. NILS ÖDHNER 
of the Swedish State Museum, for which kindness I wish to tender my best thanks. 
Subordo Podocopa. 
Family Cypridee. 
Genus Cypris O. F. MÖLLER 1776. 
Subgenus Cyprinotus G. S. BrRaADY 1886. 
Piadgnosis. — FO: frG6, O. SARS, 1889, Pp. 2 and G., W. MULLER;, 1899, p. 270. 
Remark. — Whether Cyprinolus may be considered an independent genus or a 
subgenus of the genus Cypris O. F. MÖLLER is a question which can as yet not 
be settled by reference to books, our knowledge of most species belonging to this 
group of animals being too imperfect on account of the very incomplete and partly 
incorrect descriptions. Referring to the statements of G. W. MÖLLER, 1900, p. 76: 
»CLAUS 1890 p. 52 hat diese Untergattung, deren Berechtigung mir sehr zweifelhaft 
ist...> and G. ALM, 1915, p. 44: »denn die Verschiedenheiten und Abweichungen 
nnerhalb der echten Cypris-Arten» (comprising the species of Cyprinotus) >»... sind 
im Verhältniss zu den sehr eigentumlich gebauten Notodromas, Cyprois, Cypridopsis 
und Scottia sehr gering, und meiniger Meinung nach nirgends als Gattungscharactere 
zureichend>», I have, contrary to most other authors, considered it a subgenus. 
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