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Styloptocuma Bacescu and Muradian 1974

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

Description

Styloptocuma Băcescu and Muradian, 1974

Styloptocuma Băcescu and Muradian, 1974: 74.— Băcescu, 1992: 262.— Petrescu and Watling, 1999: 306.

Americuma Watling, 1991a: 580–581.

Cumella (Styloptocuma).— Watling, 1991b: 752.

Type species. Styloptocuma antipai Băcescu and Muradian, 1974.

Remarks. Styloptocuma is characterised by pseudorostral lobes reaching the extremity of the ocular lobe, the ocular lobe without visual elements, and uropods with long peduncles, twice or even longer than pleonite 6. The genus has not previously been recorded from Australia.

Key to species of Styloptocuma from Australian waters (females only)

1. Carapace dorsally and ventrally serrated 2

— Carapace without serration 4

2. Carapace only with ventral serration S. granulosum sp. nov.

— Carapace with dorsal and ventral serration 3

3. Carapace with a lateral serrated row S. spinosum sp. nov.

— Carapace without lateral serrated row S. poorei sp. nov.

4. Dactylus of pereopod 2 twice as long as propodus S. australiense sp. nov.

— Dactylus of pereopod 2 quarter length of propodus S. nodosum sp. nov.

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 163, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14, http://zenodo.org/record/10665606

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Styloptocuma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bacescu and Muradian
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Styloptocuma and, 1974 sec. Petrescu, 2006

References

  • Bacescu, M., and Muradian, Z. 1974. Campylaspenis, Styloptocuma, Atlantocuma, new genera of Cumacea from the deep waters of the Atlantic. Revue Roumaine de Biologie. Biologie Animale 19: 71 - 78.
  • 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.
  • Petrescu, I., and Watling, L. 1999. Revision of genus Americuma Watling, 1991 (Crustacea: Cumacea) with the redescription of Styloptocuma heardi (Bacescu, 1979) based on neotype material. Travaux du Museum National dʼHistoire Naturelle " Grigore Antipa " 41: 299 - 308.
  • Watling, L. 1991 a. Revision of the cumacean family Leuconidae. Journal Crustacean Biology 11 (4): 569 - 582.
  • Watling, L. 1991 b. Rediagnosis and revision of some Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington 104: 751 - 757.