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

Lampropidae Sars, 1878

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Platyaspidae*	Sars, 1899	synonym

Children

Alamprops Gerken, 2018
Chalarostylis Norman, 1879
Hemilamprops G.O. Sars, 1883
Lamprops G.O. Sars, 1863
Mesolamprops Given, 1964
Paralamprops Sars, 1887
Platysympus Stebbing, 1912
Platytyphlops Stebbing, 1912

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カザリクーマ科

Literature

original description	Sars, G. O. (1878). Nye Bidrah til Kundskaben om Middelhavets Invertebratfauna. II. Middelhavets Cumaceer. Archiv for Mathematik ig Naturvidenskab. 3: 461 –512.
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	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.
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.
identification resource	Gerken, S. (2018). The Lampropidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of the World. Zootaxa. 4428(1): 1-192.

Genbank

Citation

Watling, L.; Gerken, S. (2025). World Cumacea Database. Lampropidae Sars, 1878. 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:110381