Pseudocuma sp. 1

Rodríguez-Uribe, María C., Jarquín-González, Jani, Salazar-Silva, Patricia, Chávez-Dagostino, Rosa M. & Balzaretti Merino, Natalia, 2024, Cumaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) associated with shallow-water hydrothermal vents at Banderas Bay, Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 139801-e 139801 : e139801-

Pseudocuma sp. 1

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: María C. Rodríguez-Uribe, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Natalia Balzaretti Merino; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 77AF762B-F05F-561D-A050-33F0C622A362; Taxon: class: Malacostraca; order: Cumacea ; family: Pseudocumatidae ; genus: Pseudocuma ; taxonRank: genus; Location: higherGeography: Mexican Central Pacific; continent: American; waterBody: Banderas Bay; country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nayarit; locality: shallow-water hydrothermal vents of Punta Mita ; verbatimDepth: 10 m; verbatimCoordinateSystem: 20°44’54.8”N 105°28’40.4”W; Event: year: 2017; month: 11; day: 17; habitat: in fine sand

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: María C. Rodríguez-Uribe, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Natalia Balzaretti Merino; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-ovate; occurrenceID: FAEFDB21-8493-5861-810E-4B42A039BBBC; Taxon: class: Malacostraca; order: Cumacea ; family: Pseudocumatidae ; genus: Pseudocuma ; taxonRank: genus; Location: higherGeography: Mexican Central Pacific; continent: American; waterBody: Banderas Bay; country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nayarit; locality: shallow-water hydrothermal vents of Punta Mita ; verbatimDepth: 10 m; verbatimCoordinateSystem: 20°44’54.8”N 105°28’40.4”W; Event: year: 2017; month: 11; day: 17; habitat: in fine sand

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: María C. Rodríguez-Uribe, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Natalia Balzaretti Merino; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: juvenile; occurrenceID: 3994A9F2-73EB-5587-915F-A59B1E7E0EF6; Taxon: class: Malacostraca; order: Cumacea ; family: Pseudocumatidae ; genus: Pseudocuma ; taxonRank: genus; Location: higherGeography: Mexican Central Pacific; continent: American; waterBody: Banderas Bay; country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nayarit; locality: shallow-water hydrothermal vents of Punta Mita ; verbatimDepth: 10 m; verbatimCoordinateSystem: 20°44’54.8”N 105°28’40.4”W; Event: year: 2017; month: 11; day: 17; habitat: in fine sand

Description

Body short and compact. Carapace with branchial regions well defined, and the antero-lateral corners more or less produced. Pseudorostrum prominent. Eye well developed. Pereon with 5 well-defined segments. Pereon of the usual slender cylindrical form. Telson is very small and unarmed, but distinctly defined from the last pleonite. With two rudimentary pleopods (male) (Fig. 2 G).

Figures

Figure 2. Representative cumacean morphospecies of each family. A-C Bodotriidae: Cyclaspis sp. 1 (A); Cyclaspis sp. 2 (B); Pseudoleptocuma sp. 1 (C); D-F Diastylidae: Diastylis sp. 1 (D); Oxyurostylis sp. 1, male (E); Oxyurostylis sp. 1, female; G Pseudocumatidae: Pseudocuma sp. 1 (G).