A review of some key species of mainly Indo-Pacific Ostracoda from the collections of G.S Brady

Fifteen key species of Recent Ostracoda (all but one from Indo-Pacific wate rs), selected from the collections of G. S. Brady and deposited in the Hanc ock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and The Natural History Museum, London, are reviewed. Holotypes and lectotypes have been formally designated and illus trated (by SEM) in the case of seven of these species: Neonesidea crosskeia na (Brady, 1866), Macrocyprina decora (Brady, 1866), Macrocyprina maculata (Brady, 1866), Pontocypris attenuata (Brady, 1868), Neocyprideis spinulosa (Brady. 1868), Keijia demissa (Brady 1868), Cytherella semitalis (Brady 186 8). Other taxa reviewed and re-illustrated are five species erected by Brad y in 1880: Neonesidea woodwardiana, Paranesidea globulus, Loxoconcha pumico sa, Kotaracythere inconspicua, Cletocythereis rastromarginata and Cythercel loidea venusta. and one species described by Brady in 1890: Neomonoceratina entomon. Lectotypes of these have been designated previously, elsewhere. T he final species. Neocyprideis timorensis which, although found by Brady in 1880. was first formally described by Fyan in 1916.