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Scherocumella Watling 1991

Description

Key to species of Scherocumella from Australian waters

1 Carapace, pereon and pleon with dorsal tubercles.................................................................... 2

—— Carapace, pereon and pleon without dorsal tubercles............................................................... 4

2 First 4 pleonites with tubercles.................................................................................................. 3

—— First 2 pleonites with dorsal tubercles........................................................ S. vieta (Hale, 1945)

3 Pleonites 3–6 with dorsal carina.............................................................. S. weinbergae sp. nov.

—— Pleonites 3–6 without dorsal carina........................................................ S. clavata (Hale, 1945)

4 Peduncle of uropod longer than pleonite 6................................................................................ 5

—— Peduncle of uropod shorter than pleonite 6............................................................................... 7

5 Peduncle of uropod more than twice as long as pleonite 6................ S. nasuta (Zimmer, 1914)

—— Peduncle of uropod less than twice as long as pleonite 6......................................................... 6

6 Peduncle of uropod 1.3 pleonite 6 length............................................... S. sheardi (Hale, 1945)

—— Peduncle of uropod 1.12 pleonite 6 length................................................. S. wittmanni sp. nov.

7 Carapace, length/height: 1.5................................................................. S. nichollsi (Hale, 1949)

—— Carapace, length/height: 2........................................................................... S. lima (Hale, 1936)

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 40, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1645, http://zenodo.org/record/5236860

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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, 2018

References

  • Hale, H. M. 1945. Australian Cumacea. No. 9. The Family Nannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 8 (2): 145 - 218.
  • Zimmer, C. 1914. Cumacea. Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens 5 (2): 184 - 187.
  • Hale, H. M. 1949. Australian Cumacea No. 16. The Family Nannastacidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 9 (2): 226 - 245.
  • Hale, H. M. 1936. Three new Cumacea from South Australia. Cumacea from South Australian Reef. Records of the South Australian Museum 5 (4): 395 - 438.