Knowledge of European intertidal salt marsh ostracods is reviewed and synthesised, focusing on data from estuaries in Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula, in order to establish a context for discussion of their taxonomy, biogeography, (macro)ecology, palaeoecology, (macro)evolution and conservation. The combined data support the emerging view that it is possible to recognise distinctive and ecologically significant salt marsh faunas with biogeographical continuity along the Atlantic and North Sea coasts of Europe, which have potential to be recognised in fossil assemblages. The study sites fall within the Temperate North Atlantic Biogeographic Realm, within which some salt marsh ostracod species can be assigned, tentatively, to either the Northern European Seas Province or the Lusitanian Province.

回顾和综合了欧洲潮间带盐沼介形类动物的知识，重点关注英国和伊比利亚半岛河口的数据，以建立讨论它们的分类学、生物地理学、（宏观）生态学、古生态学、（宏观）进化的背景和保护。综合数据支持新出现的观点，即有可能在欧洲大西洋和北海沿岸识别具有生物地理连续性的独特且具有生态意义的盐沼动物群，这些动物群有可能在化石组合中得到识别。研究地点位于北大西洋温带生物地理范围内，其中一些盐沼介形类物种可以暂时分配到北欧海洋省或卢西塔尼亚省。