View source for Brevisomabathynella cunyuensis

{{Short description|Species of crustacean}}
{{Taxobox
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
| subphylum = [[Crustacea]]
| classis = [[Malacostraca]]
| ordo = [[Bathynellacea]]
| familia = [[Parabathynellidae]]
| genus = ''[[Brevisomabathynella]]''
| species = '''''B. cunyuensis'''''
| binomial = ''Brevisomabathynella cunyuensis''
| binomial_authority = Cho et al., 2006
}}

'''''Brevisomabathynella cunyuensis''''' is a species of [[crustacean]]. It was first found in [[Western Australia]]. It stands out within its family by its [[wikt:pygmoid|pygmoid]] body and its long head. At the same time, its mouthparts show: a very large [[Labrum (arthropod mouthpart)|labrum]] with a great number (over 30) of teeth; its [[Incisive foramen|incisor process]] with four main teeth and three very small other teeth, arranged in two groups; and the distal-inner spines of the farthermost [[wikt:endite|endite]] of its [[Maxilla (arthropod mouthpart)|maxillule]] being longer than its terminal spines. These distinct characters appear to have developed due to its [[predation|predatory]] habits, which in turn are evidenced by the presence of an [[ostracod]] prey in its [[gut (anatomy)|gut]]. This genus closely resembles the genus ''[[Notobathynella]]''.<ref>Cho, Joo-Lae, Jong-Geun Park, and Y. Ranga Reddy. "Brevisomabathynella gen. nov. with two new species from Western Australia (Bathynellacea, Syncarida): the first definitive evidence of predation in Parabathynellidae." Zootaxa 1247 (2006): 25-42.</ref>

==See also==
*''[[Brevisomabathynella cooperi]]''

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Abrams, Kym M., et al. "Molecular phylogenetic, morphological and biogeographic evidence for a new genus of parabathynellid crustaceans (Syncarida: Bathynellacea) from groundwater in an ancient southern Australian landscape." Invertebrate systematics 27.2 (2013): 146-172.
*Watts, C. H. S., and W. F. Humphreys. "Fourteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot, Paroster Sharp, and Exocelina Broun from underground waters in Australia." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133.1 (2009): 62-107.

==External links==
*{{EOL|25501193|Brevisomabathynella cunyuensis}}

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[[Category:Syncarida]]
[[Category:Crustaceans described in 2006]]


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