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Chalarostylis erebos Muhlenhardt-Siegel 2019

  • 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

Chalarostylis erebos Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2019

Holotype.

North Atlantic Ocean • prep. ♀; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-04-8; 10°25.52'N, 31°04.52'W [10.42533, - 31.0755; 10.427, - 31.073 5]; 5735 [5734.3–5724.7] m depth; 26 December 2014; Colin Devey leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-056190.

Paratypes.

* • 1 m.; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-02-6; 10°46.68'N, 25°03.83'W [10.72817, - 25.06383; 10.72983, - 25.06217]; 5520 [5501.6–5515.1] m depth; 20 December 2014; Colin Devey leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-045998. * • 1 m. + ♂; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-02-7; 10°42.75'N, 25°03.38'W [10.713, - 25.056; 10.715, - 25.053 33]; 5514 [5490.2–5292.6] m depth; 20 December 2014; Colin Devey leg.; epibenthic sledge; one specimen dissected; ZMH -K-045999. * • subA. ♂; same data as holotype; ZMH -K-046000. * • 3 subA. ♂♂ + 3 prep. ♀♀; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-04-9; 10°25.54'N, 31°03.10'W [10.42583, - 31.05183; 10.4275, - 31.04967]; 5735 [5736.6–5732.9] m depth; 27 December 2014; Colin Devey leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-046001. * • subA. ♂ + prep. ♀; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-06-7; 10°21.76'N, 36°55.17'W [10.36283, - 36.91967; 10.36367, - 36.918]; 5085 [5082.7–5078.4] m depth; 02 January 2015; Colin Devey leg.; epibenthic sledge; one specimen dissected mounted on a permanent slide. ZMH -K-046002. * • prep. ♀; Eastern Fracture Zone, Vema-TRANSIT exped., FS Sonne stat. SO 237-06-8; 10°22.59'N, 36°55.49'W [10.3765, - 36.92467; 10.37733, - 36.92317]; 5119 [5117.3–5114.3] m depth; 03 January 2015; Nils Brenke leg.; epibenthic sledge; dissected mounted on a permanent slide; ZMH -K-046003. * • ♀ + prep. ♀; same data as ZMH -K-046003; ZMH -K-046004.

Diagnosis.

Carapace elevated posteriorly, rough surface, with tiny teeth on dorsal crest; pseudorostrum and frontal lobe with hair-like simple setae, longer than pereonites together; pseudorostral lobes meeting in front of ocular lobe, serrated on anterior margin; siphonal tube not protruding; ocular lobe moderately small; eye lenses missing; antennal notch and anterolateral tooth missing; anteroventral margin of carapace not serrated; integument whitish, rough because of scaly structure. Five free thoracic segments visible. Pleon, including telson, as long as carapace and free thoracic segments together. Telson 1.1 times wider than long, 0.7 times as long as uropod peduncle, with serrated margins, 4 pairs of lateral setae, and 3 terminal setae equal in length (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2019).

Distribution.

Northeast Atlantic, Vema Fracture Zone, 5085–5735 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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References

  • Mühlenhardt-Siegel U (2019) The Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from a North Atlantic Transect with RV " Sonne " with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa 4572: 1–75. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4572.1.1