Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Cumacea

Diastylidae Bate, 1856

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachydiastylis Stebbing, 1912
Cuma Milne Edwards, 1828
Diastylis Say, 1818
Diastyloides G.O. Sars, 1900
Diastylopsis Smith, 1880
Ekleptostylis Stebbing, 1912
Ektonodiastylis Gerken, Watling & Klitgaard, 2000
Leptostylis G.O. Sars, 1869
Makrokylindrus Stebbing, 1912
Vemakylindrus Bacescu, 1961

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: クーマ科

Literature

basis of record	Watling, L. (2001). Cumacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 308-310
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2025). World Cumacea Database. Diastylidae Bate, 1856. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110380