Published December 31, 2012 | Version v1
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Cumellana Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2012, gen. nov.

Description

Cumellana gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Female. Carapace without antennal notch. Antenna 1 long, second article of peduncle without tubercle. Labium with a forked terminal seta. Maxilliped 1 with large dactylus. Maxilliped 3 with long propodus, twice as long as carpus. Pereopod 1 dactylus with short terminal setae. Pereopod 2 dactylus with three terminal short setae, middle one highly robust.

Male unknown.

Etymology. The name is a combination between the generic name Cumella and the Christian name of the daughter of first author, Ana.

Type species. Cumellana caribbica sp. nov.

Remarks. The new genus could be distinguished from other genera of the family Nannastacidae by having long antennules and pereopod 2 with short terminal setae, equal in length.

Notes

Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, Chatterjee, Tapas & Schizas, Nikolaos V., 2012, New genus and new species of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the mesophotic coral ecosystem of SW Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, pp. 55-61 in Zootaxa 3476 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.211298

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Biodiversity

Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Cumellana
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cumellana Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2012