OSTRACON

Email-Discussion-List

OSTRACON is an electronic discussion group for Ostracoda running on the Listserv server at the University of Houston. The Listowner is Rosalie F. Maddocks († 2026), who established OSTRACON together with Roger L. Kaesler († 2007) in 1995.

OSTRACON is the email platform for news distribution and for discussion of ostracod topics. Registration is easily done and for free. Subscribers can actively use this immediate way to get in contact with the entire community of ostracod workers or remain silent and passively follow the communication. Particularly students should register and profit from email exchange within the community. Since unsubscribing is as easy as subscribing, there is no reason not to give OSTRACON a try! Announcements, requests, literature searches …. all this and more can be done through OSTRACON.

Good to know: Ostrakon is a Greek noun meaning (1) a tile, a potsherd, a piece of earthenware; (2) the hard shell of testacea, as snails, tortoises. Latreille in 1802 based the name Ostracoda on the related Greek form ostrakodes meaning testaceous. The name OSTRACON was selected for this list because it suggests Ostracoda-on-line.

To subscribe to OSTRACON, send the message: „SUBSCRIBE OSTRACON your full name“ to the address:

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UH.EDU

When the server asks you to confirm that you wish to subscribe, simply reply OK. Just two letters, OK, and it must be a reply rather than a new message. Then save and read the two Welcome messages you will receive.

This list is international. Standard English is preferred, simply because it is understood by the largest number of people, but subscribers are welcome to post or to reply to posts in any language.

Please add your e-mail address (some mail-readers do not pick this up automatically), your full name (no anonymous posts), and your affiliation or postal mailing address to the bottom of every post. An explicit subject heading is appreciated.

Discussions concerning Ostracoda that begin on the list should be answered on the list, rather than privately, so that other subscribers may hear the full conversation. Of course, private or personal correspondence should be conducted off-list by direct e-mail to the author. Semipersonal requests, such as whether anyone knows the e-mail address for a person, should include a statement such as „Please reply off-net.“

Ordinarily advertisements are not allowed, but information of any kind related to Ostracoda is always desirable. If, for example, you have discovered a better kind of picking tray, or you have invented an improved picking brush, or your new book concerning Ostracoda has just been published, please share with us the information on where these may be purchased.

Copyright laws differ in different countries, and it is not yet clear how existing laws will apply to the Internet. It is best to assume that anything posted on this list may be read by the whole world. Naturally, if you wish to use any idea or statement from a post on this list in a publication, you should obtain permission from the author and credit it as an „informal electronic communication“ by citing the author, the date, and the list name and address: OSTRACON@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU.

This list is unmoderated and unedited. However, intentionally offensive and off-topic posts will not be tolerated. We ask you to notice that customs of speech and styles of humor differ in different regions and cultures and to take this into consideration when posting to this list. (Instructions by Rosalie Maddocks)

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eorg Ossian Sars in 1889 reported “On some freshwater Ostracoda and Copepoda raised from dried Australian mud”, and illustrated his findings with amazing figures like the ones shown on this page (Sars 1889, Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger, 8, 3–79)