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Hooded Shrimp
Cumacea
Cumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in soft-bottoms such as mud and sand, mostly in the marine environment. There are more than 1,500 of species of cumaceans formally described. The species diversity of Cumacea increases with depth.
8 branches of this order, most-observed first
Diastylidae
familyDiastylidae
Bodotriidae
familyBodotriidae
Leuconidae
familyLeuconidae
Pseudocumatidae
familyPseudocumatidae
Nannastacidae
familyNannastacidae
Lampropidae
familyLampropidae
Ceratocumatidae
familyCeratocumatidae
Gynodiastylidae
familyGynodiastylidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144115.