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Cumacea 
AphiaID: 1137

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder)
Authority Krøyer, 1846
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1
Rank Order
Parent Peracarida
Sources  basis of record: Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch tonkreeftjes  [details]
Dutch zeekomma's  [details]
English cumaceans  [details]
English hooded shrimps  [details]
Swedish kommakräftor  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Family Bodotriidae T. scott, 1901
Family Ceratocumatidae Calman, 1905
Family Diastylidae Bate, 1856
Family Gynodiastylidae Stebbing, 1912
Family Lampropidae Sars, 1878
Family Leuconidae Sars, 1878
Family Nannastacidae Bate, 1866
Family Platyaspidae
Family Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878

Family Pseudocumidae accepted as Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878
Environment marine
Feedingtype  unknown [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1137
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cumacea. 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=1137 on 2013-06-20
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