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Eocuma gorgasiae Muhlenhardt-Siegel 1996

  • 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

Eocuma gorgasiae Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 1996

Holotype.

Maldives • ♀; South of the Island Jetty, Embudu, South Male Atoll; 21 m depth; 02 March 1994; Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel & Volker Siegel leg.; on sandy bottom within a sandeel colony of the sandeel Gorgasia sp.; ZMH -K-038046.

Remarks.

Mühlenhardt-Siegel (1996 a) designated two paratypes (♀ + juv.), from the same station and data as the holotype, which are deposited at the ZMA (ZMA Cu.202.080).

Diagnosis.

Carapace 1.5 times as long as high, without lateral carina, 1 horn at each side in the anterior third, and with an elevation on the middorsal surface at the posterior margin; pseudorostrum short and straight; dorsomedian line without carina; antennal notch narrow (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 1996 a).

Distribution.

West Indian Ocean, Maldives, 21 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-038046
Event date
1994-03-02
Verbatim event date
1994-03-02
Scientific name authorship
Muhlenhardt-Siegel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Cumacea
Family
Bodotriidae
Genus
Eocuma
Species
gorgasiae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Eocuma gorgasiae Muhlenhardt-Siegel, 1996 sec. Mercado-Salas, Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Pereira & Garilao, 2026

References

  • Mühlenhardt-Siegel U (1996 a) Cumacea (Crustacea) from the Red Sea and the Maldives (Indian Ocean) in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Hamburg, with the description of seven new species and a new genus. Beaufortia 46 (7): 105–134.