Lampropidae

Lampropidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Superorder:	Peracarida
Order:	Cumacea
Family:	Lampropidae; Sars, 1878
Genera
	Archaeocuma; Bathylamprops; Chalarostylis; Dasylamprops; Hemilamprops; Lamprops; Mesolamprops; Murilamprops; Paralamprops; Platysympus; Platytyphlops; Pseudodiastylis; Pseudolamprops; Stenotyphlops; Typolamprops

Lampropidae is a family of cold-water crustaceans belonging to the order cumacea.

Anatomy

Members of lampropidae are relatively easily recognised because they all at have at least three terminal setae on the telson (rigid fibres on the end of the tail). The endopods (interior branches) of the uropods are present on all three members. In the males the flagellum of the second antenna reaches beyond the carapace. Moreover they possess pleopods. In the females the second antenna is somewhat shorter than the first. There are exopods (outer branches) on the third maxilliped and strongly reduced or absent on the third pereopods.

References

^ Sars, G.O., (1878). Nye bidrag til kundskaben om Middelhavets Invertebratfauna. II. Middelhavets Cumaceer. Arch. Math. Naturv. 3: 416-512, pls 1-18

External links

Lampropidae on the Cumacea World Database.

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[1] Sars, G.O., (1878). Nye bidrag til kundskaben om Middelhavets Invertebratfauna. II. Middelhavets Cumaceer. Arch. Math. Naturv. 3: 416-512, pls 1-18

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