Amphi-Atlantic distribution of the Mancocumatinae (Cumacea: Bodotriidae), with description of a new genus dwelling in marine lava caves of Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Author
Corbera, Jordi
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2002
2002-04-30
134
4
453
461
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00016.x
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10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00016.x
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Speleocuma
gen. nov.
Diagnosis
. Well-developed exopods on pereopods
1–3 in
both sexes, no trace of exopod on fourth pereopod; male with two pairs of pleopods; uropod endopod of two articles.
Figure 1.
Speleocuma guanche
gen.
et
sp. nov.
A, Ovigerous female, whole animal in lateral view. B, Adult male, whole animal in lateral view.
Etymology
. Prefix derived from the Greek
spelaion
, referring to the cave-dwelling habits of the
type
species.
Type
species
:
Speleocuma guanche
sp. nov.
Remarks
. The subfamily
Mancocumatinae
was erected by
Watling (1977)
to accomodate
Bodotriidae
species having less than five pleopods in males. Currently, five species in three genera make up the subfamily. Males of
Pseudoleptocuma
Watling 1977
have three pairs of pleopods, whereas those of
Spilocuma
Watling 1977
have no pleopods. Only in
Mancocuma
Zimmer 1943
males have two pairs of pleopods, like in
Speleocuma
. However,
Speleocuma
differs from the other three genera in the absence of exopods on the fourth pereopod in both sexes.