Resumen de Ostracoda from Delaware Bay
Seventeen species of Ostracoda are recorded from suspended sediment in water sampled in the lower part of Delaware Bay, Delaware and New Jersey. One new species, Cytherura quadripunctata, n. sp. is described. The fauna is representative of the kinds of Ostracoda that inhabit the more open parts of estuaries and bays along the Atlantic coast of the United States, although more than half the species could not be definitely assigned to described species. These are given affinitive assigments.
The high energy nature of the benthic environment in lower Delaware Bay and the scarcity of specimens in the collection that contain soft parts suggest that the population was largely transported to the stations where collections were made. On the other hand, only a few of the Delaware Bay species were recorded in nearby tidal bays and rivers of Delaware. The Delaware Bay ostracodes are suggested to have lived amongst aquatic vegetation in quieter waters of Delaware Bay margins.
