Ocorrência de ostracoda no médio Rio Doce/MG e revisão do estado da arte do estudo desse grupo no Brasil

Abstract

The more important caracteristics of Ostracoda were reviewed, as well a survey of several scientific researches about freshwater and semi-terrestrial ostracods. Beyond these selections of researches about Brazilian fauna, this paper offers to reader a check list making evidence ofostracods richness. The main idea was prepare a data basis which became promptness accessible the knowledge of relevant researches about Brazilian ostracods. It was found less searchers involved with recent ostracds than involved with fossil ostracods in Brazil. To finish, the kind of developed researches in another country, and in Brazil, it was organized to make easy the estimate to research that have ever being developed concerning recent Ostracoda.