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Ostracoda (Myodocopina) of Tutuila, American Samoa
- Pacific Science
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 60, Number 2, April 2006
- pp. 243-259
- 10.1353/psc.2006.0008
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Three species (two new) of myodocopid Ostracoda are reported from Tutuila, American Samoa: Paravargula trifax Kornicker, 1991; Cypridina mellentini Kornicker & Harrison-Nelson, n. sp.; and Asteropterygion samoa Kornicker & Harrison-Nelson, n. sp. Only C. mellentini was abundant. The genus Asteropterygion is reported for the first time from a southwestern central Pacific island. Paravargula trifax had been reported previously from Enewetak.