title: On a new marine podocopid genus and species (Ostracoda: Hemicytheridae) from Brazil.
abstract: Bulbocythere calida gen. et sp. nov., a benthic marine ostracode, is herein described and illustrated. The geographic and bathymetric distributions of this new taxon are based on the analysis of 923 bottom samples collected along the entire Brazilian continental shelf in a depth range of about 11 to 280 m, plus sediments of 176 samples from the Sepetiba Bay and 37 samples from the Tamandaré Bay. In the study material, this ostracode was rare, and restricted to the warm waters of the E and NE shelves and to the substrates around the reefs of the Tamandaré Bay.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Caixa Postal 15001, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.. joao.coimbra@ufrgs.br.
authors.forename: João Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Coimbra
authors.forename: Anderson L M DE
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Morais
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D001938:Brazil; D003445:Crustacea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size
keywords: Crustacea, new genus, new species, Ostracoda, Southwest Atlantic Ocean, taxonomy