WoRMS taxon details
original description
Lavrenteva, A. V.; Mühlenhardt-Siegel, U. (2015). Three new species and one new genus of abyssal Cumacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Peracarida) from the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench area. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 111: 301-324., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.08.013 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Long serrated dorsomedian line on the carapace; teeth ventrally of the pseudorostrum;subrostral tooth relatively small, ending at level of ocular lobe; first antenna with accessory flagellum as long as the basal article of the main flagellum; female with exopods on pereopods 1–3, male with exopods on pereopods 1–4; teeth on the basal article of the exopods of maxilliped 3 and pereopod 1, tooth on exopods basal article of pereopod 2 and pereopod 3; uropod endopod two-segmented; no pleopods in male [details]
Etymology The new genus is named Abysso - because it is distributed in abyssal depth, and - leucon, the stern genus of the family Leuconidae. [details]
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