Annotated checklist and keys for cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with six new species from the Southern Mexican Pacific
Author
Jarquín-González, Jani
Author
García-Madrigal, María Del Socorro
text
Zootaxa
2013
3721
3
201
257
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3721.3.1
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1175-5326
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Coricuma
Watling & Breedy, 1988
Diagnosis
(emended by Watling 1991a): Pseudorostrum projecting anteriorly, slightly shorter in male; antenna 1 not geniculate; male antenna 2 peduncular articles 4 and 5 without a group of setae, article 5 annulated and possessing grasping teeth; male antenna 2 flagellum absent; female with exopods only on pereiopod 1; male with exopods only on pereiopod 1; uropod endopod 2-articulate; male with 2 pairs of pleopods; carapace with distinct eyelobe projecting anteriorly over pseudorostral lobes.
Remarks.
Originally Watling & Breedy (1988) considered
Coricuma
as a member of the
Leuconidae
, but Haye (2004; 2007) used additional characters (e.g. reduced number of pleopods, the modified second antenna of the males and the presence of the exopods only on the first pair of pereopods) to place this genus in the
Bodotriidae
. Also Haye (2004) related
Coricuma
with
Austrouma
, because she determined that “both genera share a set of unique characters: males have exopods only on pereopod 1, antenna 2 highly modified for grasping and fewer than five pairs of pleopods”.