Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria
Author
Petrescu, Iorgu
Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff 1, Bucharest 011341, Romania
iorgup@antipa.ro
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
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.