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TAXONOMIC REVISION OF LIVENTAL’S SPECIES OF BRACKISH WATER OSTRACODA (Crustacea) AND DESIGNATION OF NEOTYPES
The aim of this paper is to re-describe LIVENTAL’s (1929) species through
the SEM pictures of the specimens included in various historical collections
deposited at the Micropaleontological Laboratory of the VNIGRI, St. Petersburg,
Russia, since the original Livental’s collection seems to be lost as well as
the Azerbaijan collections by Agalarova (AGALAROVA, 1956, 1967; AGALAROVA
et al., 1940, 1961). In particular, the revision is based on the VNIGRI collection
AZNII27 of L.N. Klein who studied the ostracods of the Azerbaijan area of
Babazanan (KLEIN, 1960, the same area studied by LIVENTAL, 1929) and on several
other collections from Turkmenistan, the Caucasus and Euxinic/Black
Sea? Basin included both in historical collections (Mandelstam, Luebimova,
Rozjeva, Stepanaitys) as well as on new findings from the Euxinic Basin. The
discussion on each species is accompanied by its synonymy, and an updated
geographical and stratigraphical distribution based on the new chronostratigraphical
data of KRIJGSMAN et al. (2010) and VAN BAAK et al. (2013). In those
few cases where the Livental’s species are still living in the Caspian or Black Sea,
the soft parts are described and the ecological parameters given