Vemacumella bacescui Petrescu, 2006

Petrescu, Iorgu, 2018, On the Family Nannastacidae (Crustacea, Cumacea) from the Australian Museum Collection, Records of the Australian Museum 70 (1), pp. 1-111 : 51-110

Vemacumella bacescui Petrescu, 2006

Vemacumella bacescui Petrescu, 2006: 170–171 , figs 65–66.

Material examined: 1♀, P.64738.

Distribution. Australia: NSW—off Nowra, and TAS— off Freycinet Peninsula, at 400–770 m depth ( Petrescu, 2006). The species is now known from greater depths on the continental slope of eastern Australia, at 914 m east of Broken Bay, NSW.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. I am so very grateful to the Australian Museum for approving the funds for this study of the Nannastacidae collection of their museum; to all the people from the Marine Invertebrate Department, especially to Drs Penny Berents and Stephen Keable, managers of the collections, for their warm help and collaboration during my work period at the Australian Museum in 2003 and to Helen Stoddart, from the same institution, for her meticulous and careful verification of the very substantial collections in the Australian Museum; to Dr Sarah Gerken (University of Alaska, U.S.A.) and to Dr Shane Ahyong (Australian Museum) for their very kind and highly competent revision of the manuscript and very useful comments; to Prof. Dr Doc. Karl J. Wittmann ( Austria) and Dr Ute Müllenhardt-Siegel ( Germany) for translations into English of Zimmer’s description of Cumella sordidum ; to my wife, Angela, and my daughter Ana-Maria, for patience and love during my period of long departure.