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Bathycuma squamosa Muhlenhardt-Siegel 2005

  • 1. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental (DBBE), Buenos Aires, Argentina & Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Instituto de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental y Aplicada (IBBEA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 3. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Hamburg, Germany & Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Centre for Biodiversity Knowledge Science, Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Hamburg, Germany

Description

Bathycuma squamosa Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2005

Holotype.

South Atlantic Ocean • juv. ♂; Angola Basin, DIVA I exped., FS Meteor stat. M 48/1-318 -1; 22°20.0'S, 03°18.3'E to 22°20.2'S, 03°18.4'E [- 22.33297, 3.30567; - 22.33747, 3.30732]; 5125–5144 [5179–5180] m depth; 09 July 2000; Angelika Brandt & J. Wolfgang Wägele leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-040424.

Paratype.

* • juv. ♂; Angola Basin, DIVA I exped., FS Meteor stat. M 48/1-340 -1; l 8°18.3'S, 04°41.3'E to 18°19.4'S, 04°41.9'E [- 18.28822, 4.68683; - 18.32237, 4.69722]; 5395 [5419] m depth; 22 July 2000; Angelika Brandt & J. Wolfgang Wägele leg.; epibenthic sledge; specimen dissected, appendages mounted on a permanent slide; ZMH -K-040425.

Diagnosis.

Very long pleonite 5 with scaly structure. Uropod exopod longer than endopod (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2005 a).

Distribution.

Southeast Atlantic, Cape, Angola, and Guinea Basins, 3154–5395 m depth (Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2005 a, 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Mercado-Salas, Nancy F., Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute, Pereira, Emanuel & Garilao, Cristina, 2026, An annotated type catalogue and a fully digitised Crustacea collection of the Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology. Part I: Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida, Cumacea, pp. 137-193 in Evolutionary Systematics 10 (1) on pages 137-193, DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.10.187593

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMH
Material sample ID
ZMH-K-040424 , ZMH-K-040425
Event date
2000-07-09 , 2000-07-22
Verbatim event date
2000-07-09 , 2000-07-22
Scientific name authorship
Muhlenhardt-Siegel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Cumacea
Family
Bodotriidae
Genus
Bathycuma
Species
squamosa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Bathycuma squamosa Muhlenhardt-Siegel, 2005 sec. Mercado-Salas, Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Pereira & Garilao, 2026

References

  • Mühlenhardt-Siegel U (2005 a) New Cumacea species (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the deep-sea expedition DIVA-I with RV " Meteor " to the Angola Basin in July 2000. Families Lampropidae, Bodotriidae. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5: 113–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2004.10.008