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Schizotrema Calman 1911

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

Description

Schizotrema Calman, 1911

Schizotrema Calman, 1911: 341, 360–361.— Watling, 1991b:

755.— Băcescu, 1992: 259.— Stoddart and Lowry, 2003: 418.

Type species. Schizotrema depressum Calman, 1911.

Remarks. In Schizotrema, the carapace is high as in Nannastacus, higher than in Cumella; the eyes are always as in Nannastacus, but the pseudorostral lobes are completely separated from base to top, not like in Nannastacus, Scherocumella or Cumella. The uropodal peduncle is as long as or shorter than pleonite 6, as in Nannastacus.

Key to species of Schizotrema from Australian waters

1. Exopod of uropod at least 0.3 times as long as endopod 2

— Exopod of uropod at least 0.25 times as long as endopod 3

2. Last pereonite and 1st pleonite with a pair of strong dorsal spines S. aculeatum Hale, 1936

— Last pereonite and 1st pleonite without spines S. nudum Tafe and Greenwood, 1996

3. Carapace with dorsal and lateral spines S. resimum Hale, 1949

— Carapace without spines S. leopardinum 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 pages 162-163, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14, http://zenodo.org/record/10665606

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Schizotrema
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Calman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Schizotrema Calman, 1911 sec. Petrescu, 2006

References

  • Calman, W. T. 1911. On new and rare Crustacea of the Order Cumacea from the collection of the Copenhagen Museum - Part II. The Families Nannastacidae and Diastylidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 18: 341 - 400.
  • Watling, L. 1991 b. Rediagnosis and revision of some Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington 104: 751 - 757.
  • 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.
  • 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 /)
  • Hale, H. M. 1936. Cumacea from a South Australian reef. Records of the South Australian Museum 5: 404 - 438.
  • Tafe, D. J., and Greenwood, J. G. 1996. A new species of Shizotrema (Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39: 381 - 389.
  • Hale, H. M. 1949. AustralianCumaceaNo. 16. TheFamilyNannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 9: 226 - 245.