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Leucon kapinga Muhlenhardt-Siegel 2010

  • 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

Leucon kapinga Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2010

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Holotype.

South Atlantic Ocean • ♀; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-89; 0°42.95'N, 05°31.29'W [0.71583, -5.5215]; 5142 m depth; 20 March 2005; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-042398.

Paratypes.

* • 16 m. + 3 subA. ♂♂ + 23 non-ovig. ♀♀ + 2 ovig. ♀♀; same data as holotype; one female dissected; ZMH -K-042399. * • 10 m. + 3 subA. ♂♂ + 7 non-ovig. ♀♀; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-90; 0°40.49'N, 05°29.71'W [0.67483, -5.49517]; 5142 m depth; 20 March 2005; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; epibenthic sledge; one female dissected; ZMH -K-067100. * • subA. ♂; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-75; 0°50.04'N, 05°35.04'W [-0.83333, -5.58333]; 5139 m depth; 19 March 2005; Michael Türkay leg.; multiple corer; ZMH -K-067101. * • non-ovig. ♀; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-78; 0°49.97'N, 05°35.44'W [-0.835, -5.585]; 5138 [5136] m depth; 19 March 2005; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; multiple corer; ZMH -K-067102. * • subA. ♂; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-88; 0°50.01'N, 05°35.06'W [-0.83367, -5.58433]; 5137 [5140] m depth; 20 March 2005; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; box corer; ZMH -K-067103. * • non-ovig. ♀; Guinea-Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-92; 0°53.43'N, 05°38.45'W [- 0.89667, - 5.65167; - 0.81833, - 5.54667]; 5144 [5142–5139] m depth; 21 / 22 March 2002; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; Agassiz trawl; ZMH -K-067104.

Remarks.

In the original publication, only one collection number was assigned to the ZMH - K paratypes, even though the specimens were collected at six different stations. Here, we assigned a new collection number to five lots (see above), whereas the original number given by Mühlenhardt-Siegel (2010) is retained by the first lot listed in the paratype section. Additional paratypes are deposited at the MNHN (MNHN -Cu 1144).

Diagnosis.

Carapace with a single row of 6 dorsomedian teeth in anterior half; pseudorostrum long, rounded terminally, 0.8 times as long as rest of carapace, with 3 teeth ventrally (female). Uropod, exopod equal in length to endopod (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2010).

Distribution.

Southeast Atlantic, Angola and Guinea Basins, 5138–5144 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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