Recent species of the Family Candonidae (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the ancient Lake Biwa, Central Japan

Nonmarine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Jeju Island, South Korea, including descriptions of two new species

“…Genus Physocypria Vávra, 1897 Physocypria nipponica Okubo, 1990 Remarks Previously this species has been reported from various localities on the Korean Peninsula and Japan (Okubo 1990a(Okubo , 2004Smith and Janz 2008;Chang et al 2012). Physocypria kraepelini Muller, 1903 has also been reported from Korea (Lee et al 2000), and as Smith and Janz (2008) noted, the two species may be synonyms, although further work is required to confirm this.…”

Four new species of the subfamily Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from freshwater habitats in Japan

“…Pseudocandona is now represented by six species in Japan: P. abei Smith & Janz, 2008, Pseudocandona atmeta sp. nov., Pseudocandona becca sp.…”

“…nov. for a description of that site). In Lake Biwa, the specimens were found at the water's edge in the root mat of a willow tree (Smith & Janz 2008). To date, only a small number of females have been collected from Lake Biwa, in samples collected during Apr.…”

“…In the largest Candonidae subfamily, the Candoninae, there are at least 511 species in 37 genera (data extracted from the checklist of Martens & Savatenalinton 2011). In Japan, 24 species of this subfamily have been reported, half of which belong to the genus Fabaeformiscandona Krstić, 1972 (Okubo 1990(Okubo , 2004Matzke-Karasz et al 2004;Smith & Kamiya 2006;Smith & Janz 2008;Smith 2011;Hiruta & Mawatari 2013;Tanaka et al 2015). However, many undescribed Candoninae species exist in Japan, and the aims of this paper are to describe three species of the genus Pseudocandona Kaufmann, 1900, and one species of the genus Undulacandona Smith, 2011 that have been recovered during surveys of freshwater habitats.…”

“…Additionally, some previous records of Candoninae in Japan are re-assessed in light of the newly acquired taxonomic data, and new records of two other species are presented. 2012; Karanovic 2013), and five from Japan (Matzke-Karasz et al 2004;Smith & Janz 2008;Hiruta & Mawatari 2013;Tanaka et al 2015).…”