Leucon (Macrauloleucon) weddelli Ledoyer 1993

• Main Author: Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Leucon; Leucon weddelli; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5245255; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EE87EEFFDEFFA6FF1FF9DAFBEE9E68

L. (M.) weddelli Ledoyer, 1993 Previous records. described and rediscovered for the Weddell Sea (399–577 m). Diagnosis. Long pseudorostrum, very long siphonal tube, two long teeth along anterior margin of carapace, teeth also laterally on carapace and laterally on pereionites. New records. W Weddell Sea: ANDEEP III #151: 1 specimen; ZMH: K 42940. Remarks. The single specimen in the samples fits quite well the description given by Ledoyer (1993) with lateral teeth at the carapace; however, there is only a single dorsomedian tooth discernable. Published as part of Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute, 2011, New and known species of the family Leuconidae (Cumacea, Peracarida) from Antarctic deep-sea basins 3117, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3117 (1) on page 23, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3117.1.1