Family LAMPROPIDAE G.O. Sars, 1878

Hemilamprops latus

© Copyright from Hale 1946: fig. 1.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lampropidae Sars, G.O. 1878. Nye bidrag til kundskaben om Middelhavets Invertebratfauna. II. Middelhavets Cumaceer. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, Kristiania 3: 416-512, pls 1-18 [465].

Introduction

The Lampropidae are a small, cold-water family of 28 genera and 141 species. The family is distinctive with members easily recognised by having at least three terminal setae on the telson. Two genera and five species are known from Australia and Australian Antarctic waters (30 April 2025).

The diagnosis was generated from a DELTA database created as part of Crustacea.net by L. Watling & S. Gerken in 2002 and held at the Australian Museum. The monophyly of the family was confirmed by the phylogenetic analysis of Gerken et al. (2021).

Diagnosis

Male. Antenna 2 flagellum extending beyond thorax, peduncle with 5 articles. Mandibles navicular. Pereopod 1 simple. Pleopods present. Uropod endopod with 3 articles. Telson articulated (may be small flap), size variable; anus present, with 1 or with 3 or more terminal setae.

Female. Antenna 2 reduced, slightly smaller than antenna 1, peduncle with 4 articles or with 5 articles. Mandibles navicular. Maxilliped 3 exopod present. Pereopod 1 simple. Pereopod 3 exopod rudimentary or absent. Uropod endopod with 3 articles. Telson articulated (may be small flap).

General References

Gerken, S., Meland, K., & Glenner, H. 2021. First multigene phylogeny of Cumacea (crustacea: Peracarida). Zoologica Scripta 51: 460-477

Hale, H.M. 1946. Australian Cumacea. No. 13 The family Lampropidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 70: 178-188

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