Zimmeriana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Cumacea |
Family: | Gynodiastylidae |
Genus: |
Zimmeriana Hale, 1946 |
Zimmeriana is a genus of gynodiastylid cumacean. It is found from New South Wales to Western Australia, and in Japan. It contains 6 species, as of March, 2017.
Zimmeriana females and sub-adult males have two pseudorostral lobes which are horizontal. The eye lobes have no lenses, and may or may not have a pair of spines. The first antenna is small to moderate in size. The first pereopod has a brush of many long setae terminally on the dactyl.
In males, the pseudorostral lobes are horizontally or vertically directed. Eye lobes with or without lenses. The second antenna's peduncle has 4 articles, and the flagellum has 7 articles. There are exopods on the third maxilliped and pereopod 1-4.
Zimmeriana has 6 currently (March, 2017) accepted species: