Cymadusa Savigny, 1816

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Cymadusa Savigny, 1816

Cymadusa Savigny, 1816: 109 .—Conlan & Bousfield, 1982: 43.—Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 104.—Poore & Lowry, 1997; 900.—Peart, 2007a: 2–3.

Grubia Czerniavsky, 1868: 103 .

Acanthogrubia Stout, 1912: 143 .

Type species. Cymadusa filosa Savigny, 1816 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Antenna 1 accessory flagellum scale-like, single or multi-articulate. Epistome and upper lip directed straight down, 90 degrees to the ventral margin of the head. Mandible molar well developed; palp 3- articulate. Lower lip outer plate with notch or slit. Gnathopod 1 feeble or diminutive; smaller than or similar in size to gnathopod 2; coxa 1 produced forward; palm acute to subacute. Gnathopod 2 subchelate. Pereopods 5–7 simple or weakly prehensile. Uropod 1 reaching to the apices of the rami of uropod 2 (in situ); peduncle with long and acute distoventral spine. Uropod 3 rami broad; outer ramus with 2 large recurved distal robust setae.Telsonic cusps small, or absent.

Indo-Pacific s pecies composition. Cymadusa alyxis Hughes & Lowry, 2009 ; C. aungtonyae Peart, 2002 ; C. bilobata (Ruffo, 1969) ; C. botulus sp. nov.; C. brevidactyla (Chevreux, 1907) ; C. cavimana (Sivaprakasam, 1971) ; C. chalongana Peart, 2002 ; C. chuawe Peart, 2007 a; C. compta (Smith, 1873) ; C. crassicornis (Costa, 1857) ; C. drummondae sp. nov.; C. elegantis Peart, 2007 a; C. euclidius sp. nov.; C. filosa Savigny, 1816 ; C. grossimana Ledoyer, 1984 ; C. hadros sp. nov.; C. hallex sp. nov.; C. hawaiensis (Schellenberg, 1938) ; C. hentyana sp. nov.; C. heronensis Peart, 2007 a; C. hoeyae Hughes & Lowry, 2009 ; C. imbroglio Rabindranath, 1972 ; C. jubata sp. nov.; C. khbarnardi Hughes & Lowry 2009 ; C. ledoyeri Peart, 2004 ; C. lumanus sp. nov.; C. mariabyrneae Hughes & Lowry, 2009 ; C. mauritiensis (Ledoyer, 1978) ; C. microphthalma (Chevreux, 1901) ; C. munnu Poore & Lowry, 1997 ; C. oceanica J.L. Barnard, 1955 ; C. pemptos Peart, 2007 a; C. platys sp. nov.; C. priscileo sp. nov.; C. setosa (Haswell, 1879) ; C. smilodonta Hughes & Lowry, 2009 ; C. tattersalli Peart, 2004 ; C. thagaay Peart, 2007 a; C. tishana Peart, 2007 a; C. uncinata (Stout, 1912) comb. nov.; C. vadosa Imbach, 1967 ; C. variata (Sheard, 1936) comb. nov.; and C. wistari Peart, 2007 a.

Remarks. See Introduction.