Vaunthompsonia budaii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cumacea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Cumacea

Familia: Bodotriidae
Subfamilia: Vaunthompsoniinae
Genus: Vaunthompsonia
Species: Vaunthompsonia budaii

Name

Vaunthompsonia budaii Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2014

• Type locality: Puerto Rico, San Cristobal Cay, 17° 56' 32.95" N, 67° 4' 42.09" W. night plankton net tow at surface, location of the sampling at 4.5 m depth.
• Holotype: ♂; leg. Nikolaos V. Schizas; 2012-06-09; MGAB CUM 1709.

• Paratypes: 28 ♂♂, MGAB CUM 1700.

• Eponymy: in honour of Pârvu Budăi, colleague of first author (IP) from the National Museum of Natural History “Grigore Antipa”.

References

Primary references

• Petrescu, I., Chatterjee, T. & Schizas, N.V. 2014. New records of Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Puerto Rico with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 3873(5): 526–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.5.4 Reference page. 

Links

• Vaunthompsonia budaii – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).