Diastylidae Bate, 1856 
AphiaID: 110380

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Crustacea > Malacostraca > Eumalacostraca > Peracarida > Cumacea

Status		accepted
Record status		Edited by Database Management Team
Rank		Family
Parent		Cumacea
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]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Genus Anchicolurus Stebbing, 1912 Genus Anchistylis Hole, 1945 Genus Atlantistylis Reyss, 1975 Genus Brachydiastylis Stebbing, 1912 Genus Colurostylis Calman, 1911 Genus Diastylis Say, 1818 Genus Diastyloides G.O. Sars, 1900 Genus Diastylopsis Smith, 1880 Genus Dic Stebbing, 1910 Genus Dimorphostylis Zimmer, 1921 Genus Divacuma Genus Ekleptostylis Stebbing, 1912 Genus Ektonodiastylis Gerken, Watling & Klitgaard, 2000 Genus Geyserius Genus Holostylis Stebbing, 1912 Genus Leptostylis G.O. Sars, 1869 Genus Leptostyloides Genus Makrokylindrus Stebbing, 1912 Genus Oxyurostylis Calman, 1912 Genus Pachystylis Hansen, 1895 Genus Paradiastylis Calman, 1904 Genus Paraleptostylis Vassilenko, 1990 Genus Vemakylindrus Bacescu, 1961
Environment		marine
Feedingtypes		deposit feeder: surface [details] interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details]
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Note		Morphology:  Telson present, usually of medium or large size, occasionally small, usually with 2 terminal setae, rarely with none. Uropod inner ramus of 2 or 3, rarely 1 articles. Male pleopods 2 pairs, rarely 0, 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, rarely 1-2; in the female, 2 or 2 + 2 rudimentary, rarely 0 or absent from the third maxillipeds and present on pereopods 1-2. Mandible usually naviculoid, with large section dorsal to molar, rarely truncate. Branchial apparatus with narrow or broad gill plates.  [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110380
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: Cumacea (2013). Diastylidae. In: Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2013). World Cumacea database. Accessed through: Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2013). World Cumacea database at http://www.marinespecies.eu/cumacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110380 on 2013-05-18