| The Darwinulidae, the only surviving family of the superfamily Darwinuloidea, are revised and 28 extant species are retained. Twenty-six species (2 of which as yet formally undescribed) are allocated to 5 genera, 3 of which are here described as new; 2 species have an uncertain position within the family because of their insufficient original description are listed here as <i>species inquirendae</i>. New genera are characterised on combinations of soft part and valve characters, but the chaetotaxy of the limbs seems most conservative and most suitable the identification of genera. <i>Darwinula</i> s.s. and <i>Microdarwinula</i> are, with regard to recent species, monospecific.<i>Alicenula</i> nov. gen. is... |
