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Brehm, V. 1927. Ueber die Tiefenfauna japanischer Seen. Arch. Hydrobiol. 18: 135-150.

Brehm, V. 1933. Einige japanische Ostracoden. Trans. Nat. Soc. Formosa 23: 297-298.

Broodbakker, N. W. 1988. Ecology and distribution of groundwater Crustacea and freshwater Ostracoda in SW Honshu and the Nansei Islands, Japan. Verlagen en Technische Gegevens Institute voor Taxonomische Zoologie, 53, 1-21.

Hanai, T., Ikeya, N., Ishizaki, K., Sekiguchi, Y. & Yajima, M. 1977. Checklist of Ostracoda from Japan and its adjacent seas. The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Bulletin 12, 120 pp.

Hiruta, S. & Smith, R. J. 2001. Living Freshwater and Shallow marine Ostracoda in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan (Field excursion E): 107 - 125. In: Guidebook of Excursions of the 14th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ed. Ikeya, N.). Shizuoka, Japan, 147 pp.

Ikeda, Y. 2003. Faunal composition, distribution and population ecology of the freshwater ostracods in Japan ~ An example from Shinkai Pond, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Unpublished masters thesis, Kanazawa University.

Ikeya, N., Okubo, I., Kitazato, H. & Ueda, H. 1985. Guidebook of Excursions, Exc. 4 (for 9th International Symposium on Ostracoda). Shizuoka Univ.:1 - 32, pls 1- 8.

Janz, H., Grygier, M. J., Martens, K. & Rossetti, G. 2001. Ostracoda (Crusctacea) of Lake Biwa (Japan). Poster abstract for the 14th International Syposium on Ostracoda, August 1 - 4, 2001, Shizuoka University, Japan. p. 61.

Kato, K. 1944. Stenocypris from Izu. Zoology Magazine 56: 57.

Klie, W. 1934. Zwei neue subterrane Ostracoden der Gattung Candona. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 106, 193 - 199.

Klie, W. 1938. Ostracoden aus Formosa. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 8, 21-23.

Matzke-Karasz, R, Smith, R. J. & Homma, M. 2004. Cyclocypris diebeli Absolon, 1973 (Ostracoda, Crustacea), extinct in Europe, extant in Japan. Journal of Natural History, 38 (13), 1635 - 1663.

Meisch, C., 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe. Suesswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa 8/3. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin.

Nakao, Y and Tsukagoshi, T. 2002. Brackish-water Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the Obitsu River Estuary, Central Japan. Species Diversity, 7 (1), 67 - 115.

Namiotko, T. and Danielopol, D. L. 2002. Morphology and phylogenetic affinities of Cryptocandona brehmi (Klie, 1934) (Ostracoda, Podocopida). Crustaceana, 74 (11), 1349-1363.

Okubo, I. 1972 a. Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, I. Two species of the genus Dolerocypris Kaufmann, 1900. Review of Shujitsu Junior College, Okayama, 1, 41-60.

Okubo, I. 1972 b. Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, II. Cypris subglobosa Sowerby, 1840. Review of Shujitsu Junior College, Okayama., 1, 61-72.

Okubo, I. 1972 c. Strandesia camaguinensis Tressler, 1937, from Japan (Ostracoda, Cyprididae). Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. 8, 9-14. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, III).

Okubo, I. 1972 d. Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, IV. Heterocypris incongruens (Ramdohr, 1808). Review of Shujitsu Junior College, Okayama, 1, 73-84.

Okubo, I. 1973 a. Heterocypris takedai sp. nov. (Ostracoda, Cyprididae) from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 46 (2), 85-89. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, V)

Okubo, I. 1973 b. Cypretta seurati Gauthier, 1929, from Japan (Ostracoda, Cyprididae). Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 9, 1-6. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, VI).

Okubo, I. 1974 a. Two species of the genus Cyprinotus (Ostracoda, Cyprididae) from Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 6, 58-70. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, VII).

Okubo, I. 1974 b. Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, XI. Ilyocypris angulata Sars, 1903. The Research Bulletin of Okayama Shujitsu Junior College, 4, 46-50.

Okubo, I. 1974 c. Chrissia vittata sp. nov. from Japan (Ostracoda, Cyprididae). Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 10, 1-9. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, X).

Okubo, I. 1975 a. Studies on Ostracoda in fishponds - I. Two species in fishponds of the Chiba Prefectural Freshwater Fisheries Experimental Station. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries, 41 (2), 155-165. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, VIII).

Okubo, I. 1975 b. Stenocypris major (Baird, 1859) from Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 31 (1), 1-6. (Freshwater Ostracoda from Japan, IX)

Okubo, I. 1976. Potamocypris producta (Sars, 1924) from Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 7, 52-56.

Okubo, I. 1980. Three new species of the family Candonidae (Ostracoda) from the Inland Sea of Japan. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 18, 18-27.

Okubo, I. 1990a. Sixteen species of freshwater ostracoda from Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 45, 39-50.

Okubo, I. 1990b. Seven new species of freshwater Ostracoda from Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 19, 1-12.

Okubo, I. 2000. Ostracoda. In An illustrated guide to freshwater zooplankton in Japan, Edited by Mizuno, T. and Takahashi, E. Tokai University Press, 96-123. [in Japanese].

Okubo, I. 2001. Freshwater ostracod Darwinula stevensoni from Lake Biwa. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 56, 39-43. [In Japanese].

Okubo, I. 2003. The freshwater ostracod Notodromas monacha (O. F. MÙller, 1776). Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 58, 43-48. [In Japanese].

*Okubo, I. 2004. Nihon tansui san kaimijinko rui ni tsuite. Kabushikigaisha Sanmon Insatsusho, Okayama, Japan, 72pp. [In Japanese, privately published].

Okubo, I. and K. Ida 1989. Freshwater Ostracoda from Gunma Prefecture, Japan (In Japanese). Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 44, 105-107.

Okubo, I. & Terauchi, M. 1992. Freshwater Ostracoda from the Southwestern Islands of Japan. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Systematic Zoology, 46, 101-108.

Schornikov, E. I. 1974. On the study of Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the intertidal zone of the Kuril Islands. Transactions of the Academy of Science USSR, Far East Science Center, Institute of Marine Biology, 1, 137-214. [in Russian].

Smith, R. J. 2011. Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus. Zootaxa, 3140, 15-37.

Smith, R. J. & Hiruta, S. 2004. A new species of Metacypris (Limnocytherinae, Cytheroidea, Ostracoda, Crustacea) from Hokkaido, Japan. Species Diversity, 9, 37-46.

Smith, R. J. & Janz, H. 2008. Recent species of the Family Candonidae (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the ancient Lake Biwa, Central Japan. Journal of Natural History, 42, 2865-2922.

Smith, R. J. & Janz, H. 2009. Recent ostracods of the superfamilies Cytheroidea and Darwinuloidea (Crustacea) from Lake Biwa, a Japanese ancient lake. Species Diversity, 14, 217 - 241.

Smith, R. J., Janz, H. & Okubo, I. 2011. Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake's ostracod fauna. Zootaxa, 2874, 1-37.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2001. The first record of an Entocytherid Ostracod (Crustacea: Cytheroidea) from Japan. Benthos Research, 56, 57-61.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2003. Three brackish water ostracods (Crustacea) from Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Species Diversity, 8, 79-91.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2006. Six new species of fresh and brackish water ostracods (Crustacea) from Yaksuhima, Southern Japan. Hydrobiologia, 559, 331-355.

Smith, R. J. & Kamiya, T. 2008. The ontogeny of two species of Darwinuloidea (Ostracoda, Crustacea). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 247, 275-302.

Smith, R. J., Kamiya, T. & Horne, D. J. 2006. Living males of the 'Ancient' asexual Darwinulidae (Ostracoda, Crustacea). Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 273, 1569-1578.

Smith, R. J., Matzke-Karasz, R., Kamiya, T. & Ikeda, Y. 2002. Scottia birigida sp. nov. (Cypridoidea: Ostracoda) from western Honshu, Japan and a key to the subfamily Scottiinae Bronstein, 1947. Zootaxa, 126, 1-20.

Tanaka, E. 2004. Distribution of freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) from Noto peninsula, Japan. Unpublished undergraduate thesis, Kanazawa University, Japan, number 0005050149. [In Japanese].

Ueno, M. 1933. Freshwater crustacea of Iturup. Annot. Zool. Japon, 14, 109-113.

Ueno, M. 1947. Ostracoda In S. Uchida et al. Illustrated encyclopedia of the fauna of Japan (revised edition). Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 869-872. [in Japanese].

Vavra, W. 1906. Ostracoden von Sumatra, Java, Siam, den Sandwich-Inseln und Japan. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 23, 413-438, Pls. 24-25.

*Okubo, 2004 cites Janz et al. (2001) (an abstract for a poster; see above) for some occurrences of ostracods from Japan (Lake Biwa), but does not list it in the references. Janz et al. (2001) does not include some of the species attributed to it by Okubo, 2004 (these species were mentioned on the poster itself but not in the published abstract).

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