Kingdom Animalia Class Ostracoda Rank Family | Subphylum Crustacea Phylum Arthropoda Order Podocopida | |
Similar Candona, Podocopida, Podocopa, Cypridopsis, Eucypris | ||
Candonidae is a family of ostracods, containing around 25% of all known species of freshwater ostracods. Around 75% of genera in the family are endemic to a single zoogeographic region. It contains more than 500 species, of which more than 300 are endemic to the Palaearctic ecozone.
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