Galapagos Species Database
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Cyprideis stenopora
ostracodo, Ostracod
Found in surfical anchialine coastal lava field pools and lagoons, saline volcanic crater lakes and subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Ostracoda
Order
Podocopida
Suborder
Cytherocopina
Superfamily
Cytheroidea
Family
Cytherideidae
Genus
Cyprideis
Species
stenopora
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Gerecke, R. Peck, S.B. & Pehofer, H.E. (1995) The invertebrate fauna of the inland waters of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador) - a limnological and zoogeographical summary. Arch. Hydrobiol./ Suppl. 107(2): 113-147.
- 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.
- Triebel, E. (1953) Brackwasser-Ostracoden von den Galápagos-Inseln. Senck. biol. 37(5/6): 447-467.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cyprideis stenopora", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14041. Accessed 4 November 2026.