Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 11. 1997 (Budapest, 1997)

Meisch, C.; Forró, L.: Checklist of Recent Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Hungary

MISCELLANEA ZOOLOGICA HUNGARICA Tomus 11. 1997 p. 33^8 Checklist of Recent Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Hungary by C. Meisch and L. Forró (Received July 24,1997) Abstract. A checklist of Recent Ostracoda, containing 89 species, from Hungary is given. The history of the scientific investigations of the Recent ostracods of Hungary is reported. For each species the following data are provided: important synonyms; general distribution; list of references recording the species from Hungary. Cypria ophtalmica var. lata Sywula, 1981 is elevated to species rank: Cypria lata (Sywula, 1981). Eight species are recorded as new to Hungary: Candona sanociensis Sywula,1971, Pseudocandona sucki (Hartwig, 1901), Candonopsis scourfieldi Brady, 1910, Cypria lata (Sywula, 1981), Cypria reptans Bronstein, 1928, Notodromas persica Gurney, 1921, Heterocypris barbára (Gauthier & Brehm, 1928), and Cypridopsis elongata (Kaufmann, 1900). Key words. Crustacea, Ostracoda, Hungary Introduction Studies of Recent Ostracoda of Hungary started shortly after the middle of the 19th century with two contributions provided by Chyzer & Tóth (1857a, b ). The work was resumed by Kertész (1893a, b ) and above all Daday (e.g. 1891a, b, 1892a, b, 1896). At the turn of the century, the latter author published the first comprehensive Ostracoda 'fauna' of Hungary (Daday 1900). It is noticeable that in the same year similar faunistic synopses of Recent freshwater ostracods were published for Germany (Müller 1900) and Switzerland (Kaufmann 1900). Although E. Daday continued to publish after 1900 a large number of papers on Ostracoda and other microscopic freshwater animals, mainly Copepoda and Cladocera, from non-European countries, he contributed only one more paper to the knowledge of Hungarian ostracods (Daday 1903). A list of all Ostracoda taxa described by E. Daday and a catalogue of his large and remarkable Ostracoda collection deposited at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest was published by Forró et al. (1988). Nine publications dealing with Hungarian Ostracoda appeared between the two world wars (Kiefer & Klie 1927, Dudich 1928, 1930, 1932, Gebhardt 1933, 1934, Klie 1930, 1939, Kolosváry 1937). As a result of the Second World War the frontiers between Hungary and Slovakia had moved and therefore some of the Hungarian records of the earlier authors apply at present to the territory of Slovakia. For instance, the locality mentioned by Kiefer & Klie (1927) and the majority of those mentioned by Klie (1939) are at present situated in Slovakia. Brtek's (1977) carefully established checklist of Ostracoda recorded from Slovakia clarified the Slovakian versus Hungarian origin of the records published before 1945.