Description

Diagnosis. Uropod endopod with 2 articles, proximal article longer than distal one. Male with 5 pairs of pleopods. Type species: Vaunthompsonia cristata Bate, 1858. Caribbean species. Two species of the genus Vaunthompsonia were described from the Caribbean Sea, Vaunthompsonia floridana Băcescu, 1971 and V. budaii Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2014.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Cumacea

Family: Bodotriidae

Genus: Vaunthompsonia

Species: Vaunthompsonia Bate, 1858