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Cumacea
Sign in to saveCumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in soft-bottoms such as mud and sand, mostly in the marine environment. There are more than 1,500 species of cumaceans formally described. The species diversity of Cumacea increases with depth.
Species
cumaceans
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderCumacea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,978
- With media
- 266
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, YPM, LACM, MUSEU NACIONAL/UFRJ
- Recorded in
- United States, Panama, Japan, French Polynesia, British Virgin Islands, Brasil
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Anatomy
- Ecology
- Importance
- Reproduction and development
- History of research
- Fossil record
- Taxonomy
- See also
- References
- External links
Cumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in soft-bottoms such as mud and sand, mostly in the marine environment. There are more than 1,500 species of cumaceans formally described. The species diversity of Cumacea increases with depth.
==Anatomy== thumb|left|General body plan of a cumacean Cumaceans have a strongly enlarged cephalothorax with a carapace, a slim abdomen, and a forked tail. The length of most species varies from .
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