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Cumella praslinensis 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

Cumella praslinensis Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2000

Holotype.

Seychelles • ovig. ♀; Isle Praslin [Petite Anse Volbert], PR 4; close to nature reserve; 0.5 m depth; 03 October 1996; Volker Siegel & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; hand-net; fine sand with a high percentage of plant detritus; ZMH -K-039798.

Paratypes.

* • 14 spm.; same data as holotype; one female dissected, one female as SEM preparation, one male dissected, and one male as SEM preparation; ZMH -K-039799.

Remarks.

Mühlenhardt-Siegel (2000) declared one paratype lot deposited at the ZMA (ZMA Cu. 204913).

Diagnosis.

Maxilliped 3 without teeth; basis and merus elongate. Uropod, peduncle subequal in length to pleonite 6; exopod subequal in length to its terminal spine; endopod about twice as long as its terminal spine (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2000).

Distribution.

Seychelles Islands, 0.5–1 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-039798 , ZMH-K-039799
Event date
1996-10-03
Verbatim event date
1996-10-03
Scientific name authorship
Muhlenhardt-Siegel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Cumacea
Family
Nannastacidae
Genus
Cumella
Species
praslinensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Cumella praslinensis 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.