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Scherocumella sheardi Hale 1945

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

Description

Scherocumella sheardi Hale, 1945

Nannastacus sheardi Hale, 1945: 156, figs 8, 9.— Băcescu, 1992: 243.

Scherocumella sheardi.— Watling, 1991b: 754.— Stoddart and Lowry, 2003: 417.

Material examined. 3 females (stn MSL-EG 105), NMV J26640.

Distribution. Gulf St. Vincent, SA and eastern Vic.; surface to 4 m depth.

Remarks. The species was described by Hale from specimens collected at Brighton, Gulf St Vincent, SA. The species has now been discovered in eastern Bass Strait, Victoria from 27 m depth.

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
Material sample ID
MSL-EG 105
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hale
Species
sheardi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scherocumella sheardi Hale, 1945 sec. Petrescu, 2006

References

  • Hale, H. M. 1945. Australian Cumacea. No. 9. The Family Nannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 8: 145 - 218.
  • Bacescu, M. 1992. Cumacea II (Fam. Nannastacidae, Diastylidae, Pseudocumatidae, Gynodiastylidae et Ceratocumatidae) in: Gruner, H. E., and Holthuis, L. B. (eds), Crustaceorum Catalogus 8: 175 - 265. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.
  • Watling, L. 1991 b. Rediagnosis and revision of some Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington 104: 751 - 757.
  • Stoddart, H. E., and Lowry, J. K. 2003. Cumacea. Pp. 373 - 418 in: Beesley, P. L., and Houston, W. W. K. (eds), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. (also at http: // www. deh. gov. au / cgi-bin / abrs / fauna /)