CYPRIS

The Newsletter

Cypris was the first genus name to be proposed for an ostracod by O. F. Müller in 1776. Today we know of around fifteen species of this fresh-water genus. Since the name ‚Cypris‘ was first published, it became part of many other ostracod genus names for both, living and fossil finds.

However, CYPRIS is also the name of the International Ostracoda Newsletter founded in 1983 by the International Research Group on Ostracoda. Through a system of national correspondents, news and information are collected from ostracod researchers around the world for annual publication in this newsletter.

CYPRIS is listed with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN 0886-3806 (printed), 2195-030X (web-based) and archived electronically.

CYPRIS had a famous predecessor, which was called THE OSTRACODOLOGIST. This first newsletter, edited as from 1963 by Ephraim Gerry, continuously informed ostracod workers until it was replaced by CYPRIS twenty years later.

All printed volumes of THE OSTRACODOLOGIST and CYPRIS have been digitized in 2014 and, together with the current volumes, can now be electronically accessed through the TMS website.

Additionally, these files can be aquired upon request through the World Ostracoda Database within marinespecies.org.

This service is brought to you by a collaboration of Elisabeth Brouwers (editor of CYPRIS since 1992), Renate Matzke-Karasz (digitization), Simone Nunes Brandao (WOD editor) and Chloe Jones (TMS webmaster).

Erika Pietrzeniuk created the ink-water-paintings of Eocene ostracod valves on this page in 1969 as part of her dissertation: Taxonomische und biostratigraphische Untersuchungen an Ostracoden des Eozän 5 im Norden der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Paläontologische Abhandlungen A, 4.