One genus, two species, three palaeontologists

ABSTRACT

In her publication on a Holocene sedimentary succession of the Eastern Adriatic coast, here in the same volume, the author V. Hajek-Tadesse describes a new ostracod (Crustacea) species. She assigns it to the previously monospecific genus Juxilyocypris Kempf, 2011, which is now holding the two fossil species J. schwarzbachi (Kempf, 1967) and J. kempfi Hajek-Tadesse, 2018. These three taxa, and their taxonomic proximity give a perfect memento of three palaeontologists of the Cologne University, whose lives and achievements were similarly interwoven.

KEYWORDS:

• Schwarzbach
• Kempf
• Jux

Acknowlegdements

Kind thanks go to Dr Robin Smith (Lake Biwa Museum, Japan) and Dr Heinz Noll, Cologne for commenting on an earlier version of this text, as well as to Dr Peter Everts, Cologne, for providing the photograph and the permission to use it here.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.