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

Cumacea Krøyer, 1846

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bodotriidae T. Scott, 1901
Ceratocumatidae Calman, 1905
Diastylidae Bate, 1856
Lampropidae Sars, 1878
Leuconidae Sars, 1878
Nannastacidae Bate, 1866
Pseudocumatidae Sars, 1878

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tonkreeftjes; zeekomma's

English: cumaceans; hooded shrimps sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: クーマ目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: kommakräftor

Literature

basis of record	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 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. Cumacea. 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:1137