Cumacea taxon details
Vemakylindrus hystricosa Gerken, 2002
387581 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387581)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gerken. 2002. A new species of Vemakylindrus, V. hystricosa n. sp. is described from the continental slope off the coast of California. The new species can be distinguished from all other Vemakylindrus by the combination of the carapace and pereonites covered with spines of varying lengths, the telson longer than the uropods, and the terminal three articles of pereopod 1 being subequal and each article much less than 0.5 the length of the basis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115 (2): 419-425 [details]
Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2024). World Cumacea Database. Vemakylindrus hystricosa Gerken, 2002. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cumacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387581 on 2024-09-17
original description
Gerken. 2002. A new species of Vemakylindrus, V. hystricosa n. sp. is described from the continental slope off the coast of California. The new species can be distinguished from all other Vemakylindrus by the combination of the carapace and pereonites covered with spines of varying lengths, the telson longer than the uropods, and the terminal three articles of pereopod 1 being subequal and each article much less than 0.5 the length of the basis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115 (2): 419-425 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
