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

Platysympus Stebbing, 1912

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Platyaspis*	Sars, 1870	synonym

Children

Platysympus tricarinatus Hansen, 1920
Platysympus typicus (Sars, 1870)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コノハクーマ属

Literature

original description	Stebbing, T. R. R. (1912). The Sympoda, Part 6. Annals of the South African Museum. 10, 129–176.
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
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. Platysympus Stebbing, 1912. 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:110411