- Leuconidae
Taxobox
name = Leuconidae
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum = Crustacea
classis =Malacostraca
superordo =Peracarida
ordo =Cumacea
familia = Leuconidae
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 =Alloeoleucon Americuma Austroleucon Bytholeucon Coricuma Eudorella Eudorellopsis Hemileucon Heteroleucon Leucon Nippoleucon Ommatoleucon Paraleucon Pseudoleucon Leuconidae is a family of
crustacean s belonging to the ordercumacea .Anatomy
Leuconidae do not possess a free
telson . Theendopod s (interior branches) of theuropod s are present on two ( or more rarely one ) segments. In males theflagellum of the second antenna reaches beyond the hindmost edge of the carapace. They also bearpleopod s. In females the second antenna is greatly reduced. They haveexopod s (outer branches) on the thirdmaxilliped s and sometimes also on the thirdpereopod s.References
External links
* [http://www.marinespecies.org/cumacea/cumacea.php?p=taxdetails&id=110382 Leuconidae] on the Cumacea World Database.
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