WoRMS taxon details
Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878
Pseudocumidae · unaccepted
- 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 in McCarthy, Gerken, McGrath & McCormack, 2006
- Genus Petalosarsia Stebbing, 1863
- Genus Pseudocuma G.O. Sars, 1865
- Genus Pterocuma Sars, 1900
- Genus Schizorhamphus
- Genus Strauchia
- Genus Volgacuma
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2025). World Cumacea Database. Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110384 on 2025-04-26
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Watling, L. (2001). Cumacea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 308-310 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カワリクーマ科 [from synonym] | [details] |
