
Leucon parasiphonatus Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 1994 Holotype. Antarctica • ♀; South Shetland Islands, King George Island, Meteor 11 / 4 [1989 / 1990] exped.; FS Meteor, 62 ° 05.63 ' S, 57 ° 38.59 ' W [- 62.09383, - 57.64316]; 363 m depth; 01 January 1990; Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel, leg.; soft bottom; body preserved in 70 % den. EtOH (a), appendages mounted on a permanent slide (b); ZMH - K- 037259. Paratypes. * • subA. ♂; same data as holotype but different sample, 382 m depth; ZMH - K- 037260. * • subA. ♀; South Shetland Islands, King George Island, PS 12 / 2 ANT-VI / 2 exped.; FS Polarstern; 62 ° 04.9 ' S, 57 ° 39.0 ' W [- 62.08166; - 57.65] 314 m depth; 12 November 1987; soft bottom; station number not given in publication, but probably from station PS 12 / 2-129; box corer; ZMH - K- 037261. * • subA. ♀; South Shetland Islands, King George Island, near Bellingshausen station, north-east of Two Summit Island; 15-20 m depth; 26 November 1985; Rauschert M. leg.; pebbles; ZMH - K- 037262. * • subA. ♂; 74 ° 41 ' S, 38 ° 15 ' W [- 74.68333, - 38.25000]; 424 m depth; 27 January 1988; Gutt J. leg.; ZMH - K- 037263. * • 1 juv.; same data as ZMH - K- 037263; ZMH - K- 037264. Diagnosis. Carapace, surface granulated, without serrated dorsomedian line or teeth; ocular lobe not observed; pseudorostrum long; siphonal tube (branchial siphon) very long, as long as carapace, even in juv. and subadult stages. Pleonite 5 slightly longer than the other pleonites. Uropod, endopod bi-articulated, distal article half as long as proximal (after Mühlenhardt-Siegel 1994). Distribution. Southern Ocean, 20–2077 m depth (Mühlenhardt-Siegel 1994, 2011 a).
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
Leucon, Arthropoda, Animalia, Cumacea, Biodiversity, Leuconidae, Leucon parasiphonatus, Malacostraca, Taxonomy
Leucon, Arthropoda, Animalia, Cumacea, Biodiversity, Leuconidae, Leucon parasiphonatus, Malacostraca, Taxonomy
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