The marine taxa belong all to the superorder Myodocopa, the other two superorders, Podocopa and Palaeiocopa, include respectively most freshwater, benthic and interstitial species, and a single living family, Puniciidae.

The ostracods, although widespread over the Planet, are little known in Italy. Moreover, the few available data relate only to some regions of North Italy, Sardinia and Apulia; for the other regions, Sicily included, there are no or very doubtful data, and this lack of adequate information is remarked by the scattered papers treating both surface and groundwater ostracods of Italy (Klie, 1938; Danielopol, 1981; Ghetti & McKenzie,1981; Fox, 1966).

Family Limnocytheridae
Genus Pseudolimnocythere

Pseudolimnocythere hypogaea Klie 1938 (4) *

Family Entocytheridae
Genus Sphaeromicola

Sphaeromicola stammeri Klie 1930 (1) *

Family Cyprididae
Genus Cypria

Cypria cavernae Wagenleitner 1990 (1)

Genus Candona

Candona lobipes Fox 1966 (3?)

Genus Mixtacandona

Mixtacandona stammeri (Klie 1938) (3)
Mixtacandona cottarellii Danielopol 1982 (2) *
Mixtacandona gr. chappuisi-laisi (3)

Genus Pseudocandona

Pseudocandona aff. parallela (3)

A selected World bibliography on subterranean ostracods can be found in: Danielopol D.L.& G.Hartmann (1984).Part I:Stygobiont ostracoda from inland subterranean waters. Stygofauna Mundi: 265-281; Danielopol D. & P. Marmonier (1994). Ostracoda. Encyclopaedia Biospeologica. Societ� de Biosp�ologie, Moulis, Bucarest: 91-97. See also the Bibliography of the Italian Groundwater Fauna

Other URLS with Ostracods Information

ETI Biodiversity Center
Ostracods Bibliography
International Research Group on Ostracoda
Ostracod Systematics
Barnacles from Southern Australia
Ostracods Paleontology
Ostracod Phylogeny