The Cumacea of the Antarctic deep-sea expeditions ANDEEP I to III

在南极考察期间，ANDEEP I和II(2002年1月至4月)和ANDEEP III(2005年1月至4月)从南极不同的深海盆地采集了底栖雪橇(EBS)样本。总共从ANDEEP I至III考察队的底栖生物雪橇标本和Ant XV/3考察队的所有标本中分选了7026个Cumacea标本。DIVA-1项目(对安哥拉盆地的流星探险Me 48/1,2000年7月)对安哥拉近海的深海盆地进行了调查，发现了41个新物种。只有一种已知(Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2003,2005 a、b、c、d、e)。因此，从南大洋的深海盆地期待许多新物种似乎是合理的。在深海盆地的底栖生物群落中经常发现水母类动物；在珊瑚礁甲壳类动物中，它们的丰度排名第三，仅次于端足目和等足目动物。对于生物地理学研究以及南大洋大西洋部分和邻近深海盆地的多样性、分布、区系重叠和殖民化而言，瓜科动物是一个重要的主题，因为它们有底栖生物的生活方式，而且--像所有的丝虫一样--没有自由的幼虫，导致有限的主动和被动分布。

During the Antarctic expeditions ANDEEP I and II (January to April 2002) and ANDEEP III (January to April 2005) epibenthic sledge (EBS) samples were taken from different Antarctic deep-sea basins. In total 7026 specimens of Cumacea were sorted from the epibenthic sledge samples of the ANDEEP I to III expeditions, and from all samples of the ANT XV/3 expedition. The DIVA-1 project (Meteor Expedition Me 48/1 to the Angola Basin, July 2000) investigated the deep-sea basin off Angola and resulted in 41 new species of the order Cumacea. Only one species was already known (Mühlenhardt-Siegel 2003, 2005 a, b, c, d, e). It seems therefore reasonable to expect many new species from the deep-sea basins of the Southern Ocean. Cumacea were frequently found in the benthic community of the deep-sea basins; within the peracarid crustaceans they ranked third in abundance after Amphipoda and Isopoda. The Cumacea are an important subject for biogeographical studies, as well as for diversity, distribution, faunal overlap and colonisation of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and the adjacent deep-sea basins because they have a benthic life style and - as all peracarids - no free larvae, resulting in a limited active and passive distribution.