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Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878 
AphiaID: 110384

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Cumacea (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Family
Parent Cumacea
Synonymised
taxa		  Pseudocumidae
Sources  basis of record: Watling, L. (2001). Cumacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 308-310 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Genus Carinocuma
Genus Caspiocuma Sars, 1900
Genus Chasarocuma Derzhavin, 1912
Genus Fontainella Bacescu & Muradian, 1978
Genus Hyrcanocuma Derzhawin, 1912
Genus Kerguelenica Ledoyer, 1977
Genus Monopseudocuma McCarthy & Gerken, 2006
Genus Petalosarsia Stebbing, 1863
Genus Pseudocuma G.O. Sars, 1865
Genus Pterocuma Sars, 1900
Genus Schizorhamphus
Genus Strauchia
Genus Volgacuma
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Morphology: 
  • Telson present, small.

  • Uropod inner ramus uniarticulate.

  • Male pleopods 2 pairs, somewhat rudimentary, without external process on inner ramus.

  • Number free thoracic somites never reduced.

  • Exopods on maxillipeds and the following combinations of pereopods: in the male, 1-4; in the female, 2 + 2 rudimentary.

  • Mandible naviculoid, with large section dorsal to molar.

  • Branchial apparatus with narrow gill plates.
    •  [details]

    Synonymy: Synonymised with Pseudocumidae, with as unaccept reason: 'variant spelling' [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110384
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Watling, Les
2005-05-02 07:36:34Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pseudocumatidae. In: Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2013). World Cumacea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110384 on 2013-05-19
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