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Bodotria corallina Muhlenhardt-Siegel 2000

  • 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

Bodotria corallina Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2000

Holotype.

Egypt • ♂; Red Sea, 20 km south of Al Quseir, House reef North; 0.5 m depth; 28 March 1999; Volker Siegel & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; reef flat among coral blocks and seagrass, fine sand with foraminifers; ZMH -K-039811.

Paratypes.

* • ♂ + 2 ♀♀; same data as holotype; ZMH -K-039812.

Diagnosis.

Carapace without lateral “ Bodotria - carina ”; eyes present. Uropod peduncle nearly twice as long as pleonite 6 and slightly longer than endopod; endopod two-segmented (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2000).

Distribution.

Red Sea, 0.5 m depth.

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-039811
Event date
1999-03-28
Verbatim event date
1999-03-28
Scientific name authorship
Muhlenhardt-Siegel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Cumacea
Family
Bodotriidae
Genus
Bodotria
Species
corallina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Bodotria corallina Muhlenhardt-Siegel, 2000 sec. Mercado-Salas, Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Pereira & Garilao, 2026

References

  • Mühlenhardt-Siegel U (2000) Cumacea (Crustacea) from the Seychelles, Maldives, Sri Lanka (western Indian Ocean), and the Red Sea, with the description of six new species. Beaufortia 50 (12): 197–222.