Polycope Sars, 1866

Luz, Nathália Carvalho Da & Coimbra, João Carlos, 2022, Ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) of the Vitoria-Trindade Chain, Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 5188 (4), pp. 301-329 : 323

Genus Polycope Sars, 1866

Remarks. Polycope , the most diversified genus of the family Polycopidae , has been poorly studied in South America, including the Brazilian territorial waters. When recorded, the species are in open nomenclature (e.g., Drozinski et al. 2003; Bergue & Coimbra 2008). Some zoologists, such as Karanovic & Brandão (2015), claim that the carapace morphology of the polycopids would not be enough to distinguish the species. Although such a conclusion seems hasty, we prefer to keep the two species of Polycope in open nomenclature due to the analyzed material being only juveniles.