Ceratocumatidae

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Ceratocumatidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Cumacea
Family: Ceratocumatidae
Calman, 1905[1]
Genera

Ceratocuma
Cimmerius

Ceratocumatidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order cumacea.

[edit] Anatomy

Ceratocumatidae have a small free telson. Endopods (interior branches) of the uropods are present on only one segment. Males have 5.,4 or 3 pairs of pleopods. All maxillipeds and some of the pereiopods bear exopods (outer branches). The gill apparatus has no supporting gill plates.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Calman, W. T., (1905). The Cumacea of the Siboga Expedition. Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch Gebied 36: 1-23.

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