Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 11. 1997 (Budapest, 1997)

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

After 1950 a remarkably large number of contributions to the knowledge of Hungarian Ostracoda were published, either as sole authors or as coauthors, by A. Bérezik, H. Farkas, J. Megyeri and E. J. Ponyi. Farkas (1958b) published the second and most recent comprehensive faunistic synopsis of Recent Ostracoda of Hungary, with keys to the genera and descriptions of all species. After 1970 isolated contributions were provided by both Hungarian (e.g. Bird & Gulyás 1974, Bothár & Oertel 1977, Gulyás & Tyahun 1974) and non-Hungarian zoologists (Diebel & Pietrzeniuk 1975a, b, Meisch & Wouters 1985, Meisch 1996). The present checklist is based on all the records published in the literature. In addition, 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). Cypria reptans was identified from a sample (leg. Magda Móger) deposited at the Natural History Museum of Hungary in Budapest. The remaining seven species were present in samples collected by the second author (L.F.) from 1985 to 1996. Identification of these species was carried out by the first author (C.M.). Details on the localities, taxonomy, and ecology of the new records will be given elsewhere (Meisch, in preparation). The following data are provided for each species of the checklist: (a) important synonym(s); (b) general distribution; (c) bibliographic references of all papers reporting the species from Hungary. For the latter point, the comprehensive faunistic synopsis of Daday (1900) is taken as a starting point, no references previous to 1900 being mentioned in the list. Taxonomy 1. The three following species described as new from Hungary by Daday (1900) cannot be identified at present: Eucandona claudiopolitana Daday, 1900, Eucandona hungarica Daday, 1900 and Limnicythere hungarica Daday, 1900. The three species are most probably identical with others included in the list below. None of them was adopted in the 'fauna' published by Farkas (1958b), and they are also dismissed from the present list. 2. Candona neglecta var. tuberculata Lindner, 1923 was reported from Hungary by Ábrahám et al. (1959, 1960). The variety tuberculata was redescribed, elevated to species rank and renamed by Petkovski (1969): Candona lindneri Petkovski, 1969. All records of the var. tuberculata previous to 1969 must be considered uncertain and are therefore dismissed from the present list. 3. Potamocypris zschokkei (Kaufmann, 1900). Syn.: Potamocypris wolfi Brehm, 1920. This species is similar to P. fallax Fox, 1967, with which it was often confused. Although adopted on the list below, all records of this species reported before the publication of the taxonomic revision of this group of species (Meisch 1984) should be rechecked. 4. Candona eleonorae Ponyi, 1956. This species is so far only known from its type locality situated in the Bükk mountains in Hungary (Ponyi 1956b). The type material is lost (pers. comm. of Dr E. J. Ponyi). The species has been insufficiently described and cannot be identified at present. It was not considered in Farkas' (1958b) 'fauna' and is also dismissed from the present list. 5. Cypria ophthalmica var. lata Sywula, 1981 was found in several samples collected at Bátorliget by one of us (L.F.). Examination of these animals showed that they belong to a