Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria
Author
Petrescu, Iorgu
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2006
2006-12-31
63
2
129
173
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-63-issue-2-2006/pages-129-173/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14
1447-2554
10665606
Scherocumella
Watling, 1991
Scherocumella
Watling, 1991b: 754
.—
Stoddart and Lowry,
2003: 373–418.
Type
species
.
Nannastacus longirostris
Sars, 1879
.
Remarks
. The carapace is as in the genus
Nannastacus
and the lenses grouped in two lateral pairs as always in
Nannastacus
. The pseudorostral lobes meet each other in front of the eyelobe, from base to top, similar to the genus
Cumella
and the uropodal peduncle is as long or even longer than pleonite 6, as in
Cumella
. Five species and one subspecies are known from
Australia
.