| Full name: |
World Cumacea database UPDATED!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Cumacea |
| Version: |
2017-03-01 |
| Release date: |
2017-03-01 |
| Authors/editors: |
Watling L., Gerken S. . |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Arthropoda - Malacostraca - Cumacea |
| English name of the group: |
Cumaceans or hooded shrimps |
|
Number of living species |
1,533 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
15 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
59 |
| Number of common names: |
1 |
| Total number of names: |
1,608 |
| Abstract: |
Cumaceans are small crustaceans, generally 1-10mm in size, which occur from tidal to abyssal depths in marine (and brackish) waters throughout the world. Data contributed to the Catalogue of Life via World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: |
Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole ME, USA; University of Alaska Anchorage; Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, Alaska; USA |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/cumacea
|
| Bibliographic citation: |
Watling L., Gerken S. . (2017). WoRMS Cumacea: World Cumacea database (version 2017-03-01). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
