Apocuma brasiliense Jones, 1973

Roccatagliata, Daniel, Alberico, Natalia A. & Heard, Richard W., 2012, Apocuma (Cumacea: Bodotriidae): two new species from the West-Atlantic and a significant extension of the known distribution of this genus in the Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 3436, pp. 24-40 : 36

Apocuma brasiliense Jones, 1973

Material examined. Museu Nacional / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ( UFRJ). Oceanprof I # 44: 22°11.443’S, 39°54.767’W, 754 m, 10 Dec 2002: 1 specimen ( UFRJ 21271). Oceanprof II # 44: 22°11.443’S, 39°54.767’W, 749 m, 0 1 Jul 2003: 1 specimen ( UFRJ 21275).

Originally described from off the coast of Recife, at 587–805 m, it is now recorded from a station off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, within this depth range. Further records of this species are from off the coasts of Surinam (523–2076 m) and Argentina (1679 m) (see below).