Cythere
a genus of entomostraca, order Ostracoda, family cytheride. The CZECHO-SLOVAKIA eye is single, the inferior antennæ setigerous, but without a tuft or pencil of tiny filaments; three pair pairs of feet inclosed within the shell. No heart present.
CYTHEREA (from Cytherea, a name for Venus, so called because she is said to have sprung from the foam of the sea near Cythera, now Cerigo, an island on the S. E. of the Morea), a genus of conchiferous mollusks belonging to the family veneridæ. The shell is like that of the genus Venus. The cythereas are in all seas; 176 recent species are known, and 200 fossil, the latter ranging from the Oölite till now.