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Scherocumella Watling 1991

  • 1. Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff 1, Bucharest 011341, Romania

Description

Key to species of Scherocumella from Australian waters

1. Peudorostral lobes long 2

— Peudorostral lobes short 3

2. Carapace with a dorsal hump behind frontal lobe S. nasuta camelus Zimmer, 1914

— Carapace with no dorsal hump S. nasuta nasuta Zimmer, 1914

3. Pereon and pleon with dorsal tubercles 4

— Pereon and pleon without tubercles 5

4. Carapace with serrated dorsal and lateral rows S. vieta Hale, 1949

— Carapace without serrated rows S. clavata Hale, 1945

5. Uropod peduncle longer than pleotelson S. sheardi Hale, 1945

— Uropod peduncle shorter than pleotelson S nichollsi Hale, 1949

Notes

Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, 2006, Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria, pp. 129-173 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14, http://zenodo.org/record/10665606

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Scherocumella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Watling
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Scherocumella Watling, 1991 sec. Petrescu, 2006

References

  • Zimmer, C. 1914. Cumacea. Fauna Sudwest-Australiens 5: 184 - 187.
  • Hale, H. M. 1949. AustralianCumaceaNo. 16. TheFamilyNannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 9: 226 - 245.
  • Hale, H. M. 1945. Australian Cumacea. No. 9. The Family Nannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 8: 145 - 218.