| Diastylidae | |
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| Diastylis laevis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Cumacea |
| Family: | Diastylidae Bate, 1856 [1] |
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Diastylidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. They are marine creatures especially common around the 30th parallel north.[2]
- ^ C. Spence Bate (1856). "On the British Diastylidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2. 17 (102): 449–464. doi:10.1080/00222935608697553.
- ^ L. Watling & L. D. McCann (1997). "Cumacea". In James A. Blake & Paul H. Scott (eds.). Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel, Volume 11: The Crustacea, Part 2: Isopoda Cumacea and Tanaidacea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. pp. 121–180. ISBN 0-936494-16-6.