Nannastacidae Explained
Nannastacidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Cumacea. They have no free telson. The endopods (interior branches) of the uropods are present on one segment. There are exopods (outer branches) on the maxillipeds and generally one on pereopods 1–4 in males and 1–2 in females. In the females the second antenna is much shorter than the first.[1] It contains the following genera:[2]
- Almyracuma Jones & Burbanck, 1959
- Bacescella Petrescu, 2000
- Bathycampylaspis Muhlenhardt-Siegel, 1996
- Campylaspenis Bacescu & Muradian 1974
- Campylaspides Fage, 1929
- Campylaspis G. O. Sars, 1865
- Claudicuma Roccatagliata, 1981
- Cubanocuma Bacescu & Muradian, 1977
- Cumella G. O. Sars, 1865
- Cumellopsis Calman, 1905
- Elassocumella Watling, 1991
- Humesiana Watling & Gerken, 2001
- Nannastacus Bate, 1865
- Normjonesia Petrescu & Heard, 2001 [3]
- Paracampylaspis Jones, 1984
- Pavlovskeola Lomakina, 1955
- Platycuma Calman, 1905
- Procampylaspis Bonnier, 1896
- Scherocumella Watling, 1991 [4]
- Schizocuma Bacescu, 1972
- Schizotrema Calman, 1911
- Styloptocuma Bacescu & Muradian, 1974
- Styloptocumoides Petrescu, 2006
- Vemacumella Petrescu, 2001
Notes and References
- Book: 2003 . Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea . 19 . Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Australia . James K. Lowry & Helen E. Stoddart . . 9780643069022 . Nannastacidae . 411–418 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5LTA9bAHqYC&pg=PA413.
- Les Watling & Daphne Cuvelier . 2009 . Nannastacidae . Cumacea . 110383 . February 2, 2010.
- Iorgu Petrescu & Richard W. Heard . 2001 . Normjonesia danieli, a new genus and species of nannastacid cumacean (Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Southwest Florida continental shelf . . 21 . 2 . 469–474 . 1549800 . 10.1651/0278-0372(2001)021[0469:NDANGA]2.0.CO;2.
- Jordi Corbera . 2004 . A new species of Scherocumella (Crustacea, Cumacea) from a coral lagoon of Lifou, New Caledonia . . 26 . 1 . 65–71 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061127072716/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/1328_z04n1a4.pdf . 2006-11-27 .
