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Dimorphostylis maledivensis Muhlenhardt-Siegel 1996
Authors/Creators
- 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
Dimorphostylis maledivensis Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 1996
Holotype.
Maldives • ♂; South of the Island Jetty, Embudu, South Male Atoll; stat. 1; 21 m depth; 02 March 1994; Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel & Volker Siegel leg.; on sandy bottom within a sandeel colony of the sandeel Gorgasia sp.; legs mounted on two permanent slides; ZMH -K-038055.
Remarks.
Mühlenhardt-Siegel (1996 a) declared one paratype deposited at the ZMA (ZMA Cu.202.082).
Diagnosis.
Telson relatively short comparing to uropod’s peduncle, with two pairs of lateral spines. Uropod exopod shorter than endopod. Antenna 1, accessory flagellum 1 rather long (Mühlenhardt-Siegel 1996 a).
Distribution.
West Indian Ocean, Maldives Islands, 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
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMH
- Material sample ID
- ZMH-K-038055
- Event date
- 1994-03-02
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-03-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Muhlenhardt-Siegel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Cumacea
- Family
- Diastylidae
- Genus
- Dimorphostylis
- Species
- maledivensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dimorphostylis maledivensis 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.