The cumacean family Leuconidae in the south-west Atlantic deep-sea basins obtained during the cruise DIVA 3 with RV Meteor (cruise No. M 79 / 1)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute (2025): The cumacean family Leuconidae in the south-west Atlantic deep-sea basins obtained during the cruise DIVA 3 with RV Meteor (cruise No. M 79 / 1). Zootaxa 5716 (2): 151-206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.1AbstractThe Leuconidae (Cumacea) from the expedition DIVA 3 with RV Meteor to the Argentine and Brazil Basins (July to August 2009) were analysed, 8 new species and 1 new genus are described. These species are Bytholeucon paucidentatis sp. nov., Eudorella paramonodon sp. nov., Eudorellopsis dentata sp. nov., Leucon (Alytoleucon) argentinensis n.sp., Leucon (Crymoleucon) pinocchio sp. nov., Leucon (Leucon) brevirostratis sp. nov., Leucon (L.) paravasilei sp. nov., and Remyleucon hyalorostris gen. nov. sp. nov. Only 1 leuconid species, Leucon (C.) cf. lufupa, was already known from the Angola and Cape Basins.