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Styloptocuma cuspidatum Muhlenhardt-Siegel 2011

  • 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

Styloptocuma cuspidatum Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 2011

Holotype.

South Atlantic Ocean • ovig. ♀; 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-042735.

Paratypes.

* • 1 m. + 3 ♂♂ + 2 ovig. ♀♀ + 4 ♀♀; same data as holotype; one ovigerous female dissected mounted on a permanent slide; ZMH -K-042736. * • 2 m. + ♂ + ♀; 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; ZMH -K-067150. * • ♂ + 3 ♀♀; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-63; 0°08.79'S, 02°28.75'W [-0.1465, -2.47917]; 5047 [5047–5051] m depth; 15 March 2005; Michael Türkay leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-067151. * • ♀; Guinea Basin, DIVA II exped., FS Meteor stat. M 63 / 2-94; 0°37.66'N, 06°26.0'W [0.62767, -6.43467]; 5150 m depth; 23 March 2005; Michael Türkay & Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel leg.; epibenthic sledge; ZMH -K-067152.

Remarks.

In the original publication, only one collection number was assigned to the ZMH - K paratypes, even though the specimens were collected at four different stations. Here, we assigned a new collection number to three lots (see above); the original number given by Mühlenhardt-Siegel (2011 b) is retained for the first lot listed in the paratype section.

Diagnosis.

Carapace dorsomedian line, somites, and uropod peduncle with long teeth. No teeth scattered all over the lateral carapace; pseudorostrum 0.3 times as long as the rest of the carapace; ocular lobe as long as pseudorostral lobes, with a terminal spine. Pereopod 5, carpus longer than basis (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2011 b).

Distribution.

Southeast Atlantic, Guinea Basin, 5047–5142 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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