(Krøyer, 1846)

Description:
Female pseudorostrum long and upturned, with several long plumose setae set around the apex. Anterolateral angle forming a sharp tooth followed by a smaller one and some serrations. Eyelobe barely developed. Frontal lobe with three pairs of denticles.
Male pseudorostrum little upturned, with a few small setae at the apex, carapace smooth, anterolateral angle rectangular, without teeth or serrations behind. Telson about two-thirds as long as the uropod peduncles in the female. Endopod of uropod a little more than two-thirds as long as the exopod.
Telson present.

Size:
Up to 6 mm.

Habitat:
Shelf to bathyal.

Depth range:
Down from 5 to 350 metres.

Distribution in the North Sea:
Northern North Sea, Skagerrak.

World distribution:
An Arctic-Boreal species mainly from the upper shelf, recorded from the North Sea northwards to the Arctic and from the north-western Pacific.

Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Subclass Eumalacostraca
Superorder Peracarida
Order Cumacea
Family Dyastylidae
Genus Brachydiastylis
Species resima

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Brachydiastylis resima (Krøyer, 1846)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cuma resima Krøyer, 1846
Diastylopsis resima (Krøyer, 1846)

Jones, N.S., 1957a. Cumacea. Key to families and references. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 71 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1957b. Cumacea. Figures (covering sheets 71 and 73-76). Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 72 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1957f. Cumacea. Family: Diastylidae. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 76 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen.

Jones, N.S., 1976. British Cumaceans. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), No. 7. The Linnean Society/Academic Press, London.

Sars, G.O., 1900. An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. III. Cumacea. Bergen Museum, Bergen.

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