Pomacuma australiae (Zimmer 1921)

Gerken, Sarah, 2013, New Zealand Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea), Zootaxa 3630 (1), pp. 1-38 : 37

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6164565

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/261B5627-FFE6-FFF6-C3F3-E1F0FBCD0BFC

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scientific name

Pomacuma australiae (Zimmer 1921)
status

 

Pomacuma australiae (Zimmer 1921) View in CoL

Synonymy. Vaunthompsonia ? australiae Zimmer 1921 ; Leptocuma australiae Hale 1936 .

Diagnosis. Female. Carapace smooth, anterior half with sharp crest, depression between pseudorostral suture and dorsal crest; eyelobe with lenses, dark pigment in and around eyelobe. Pereonite 1 visible only dorsally.

Remarks. This species is the sole representative of Pomacuma recorded from New Zealand, and is unique within the New Zealand bodotriids in having a brush of long setae on the first pereopod.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Cumacea

Family

Bodotriidae

Genus

Pomacuma

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