Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Paracypris crispa
ostracodo, Ostracod
Found in subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters in caves.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Ostracoda
Order
Podocopida
Suborder
Cypridocopina
Superfamily
Cypridoidea
Family
Candonidae
Genus
Paracypris
Species
crispa
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Paracypris crispa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14018. Accessed 16 October 2026.