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Schizocuma Bacescu 1972

Description

Genus Schizocuma Băcescu, 1972

Diagnosis. (After Watling, 1991). Carapace anteroventral corner rounded or subacute; ocular lobe medially, incompletely subdivided; pseudorostral lobes separated; antenna 1 peducnle article 2 process missing; uropodal peduncle longer than pleonite 6.

Remarks. This is the first mention of the genus from Australia, previously known from deep waters of both sides of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean (South African coast) and Antarctica. Two new species present in Australian Museum collection are added to the five already known.

Notes

Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, 2018, On the Family Nannastacidae (Crustacea, Cumacea) from the Australian Museum Collection, pp. 1-111 in Records of the Australian Museum 70 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1645, http://zenodo.org/record/5236860

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Schizocuma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bacescu
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Schizocuma Bacescu, 1972 sec. Petrescu, 2018

References

  • Bacescu, M. 1972. Archaeocuma and Schizocuma, new genera of Cumacea from the American tropical waters. Revue Roumaine Biologie, Serie Zoologie 17 (4): 241 - 250.
  • Watling, L. 1991. Rediagnosis and revision of some Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) Proceedings Biological Society Washington 104 (4): 751 - 757.