| Ceratocumatidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Cumacea |
| Family: | Ceratocumatidae Calman, 1905[1] |
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Ceratocuma | |
Ceratocumatidae is a family of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. Ceratocumatidae have a small free telson. The 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.[2]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Ceratocumatidae.
- ↑ W. T. Calman (1905). "The Cumacea of the Siboga Expedition". Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch Gebied. 36: 1–23.
- ↑ WoRMS (2010). Watling L, Gerken S (eds.). "Ceratocumatidae". World Cumacea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
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