- Lampropidae
Taxobox
name = Lampropidae
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum = Crustacea
classis =Malacostraca
superordo =Peracarida
ordo =Cumacea
familia = Lampropidae
familia_authority = Sars, 1878 [Sars, G.O., (1878). Nye bidrag til kundskaben om Middelhavets Invertebratfauna. II. Middelhavets Cumaceer. Arch. Math. Naturv. 3: 416-512, pls 1-18]
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =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 orderCumacea .Anatomy
Members of Lampropidae are relatively easily recognised because they all at have at least three terminal
setae on thetelson (rigid fibres on the end of the tail). The telson is medium to large and not fused with the last segment of thepleon . Theendopod s (interior branches) of theuropod s are present on all three members. In the males theflagellum of the second antenna reaches beyond thecarapace . Moreover they possesspleopod s. In the females the second antenna is somewhat shorter than the first. There areexopod s (outer branches) on the thirdmaxilliped and strongly reduced or absent on the thirdpereopod s.References
External links
* [http://www.marinespecies.org/cumacea/cumacea.php?p=taxdetails&id=110381 Lampropidae] on the Cumacea World Database.
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