A new amphipod species of the bathyal genus Dautzenbergia Chevreux, 1900 (Amphipoda, Calliopioidea, Pontogeneiidae) associated with cold-water corals off Angola Author Zettler, Michael L. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Seestr. 15, D- 18119 Rostock, Germany Author Hendrycks, Ed A. 0000-0001-6199-7121 Canadian Museum of Nature, Research and Collections, P. O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, K 1 P 6 P 4, Canada EHENDRYCKS @ nature. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6199 - 7121 Author Freiwald, André Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, D- 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany text Zootaxa 2022 2022-11-23 5213 1 49 63 journal article 194430 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.1.3 0c11c0fd-d069-4a1a-9533-202ae884b6e0 1175-5326 7350062 57908CCC-E7FD-4AAB-8B1D-7EA0B85BC508 Dautzenbergia comitari ( Myers & Hall-Spencer, 2004 ) comb. nov. Pleusymtes comitari Myers & Hall-Spencer, 2004: 1029–1032 , figs. 1–3 Locus typicus: North Atlantic , off south-west Ireland , Porcupine Bank , 730 m . Distribution: Only known from the type locality, “Twin Mounds” sea mound in water depths between 725–900 m ( Myers & Hall-Spencer 2004 ). Associated with the gorgonian Acanthogorgia sp. Remarks. Myers & Hall-Spencer (2004) placed this species into the genus Pleusymtes (family Pleustidae ). However, our study has shown that it cannot be retained in the Pleustidae based on the following atypical and non-pleustid characters: mandibular left lacinia with 5 teeth, mandibular palp article 3 with facial A3 setae not basally clustered; urosome 2 dorsally not shortened; uropods 1–2 rami apices lacking spines and telson incised, lacking a ventral keel. The ventral keel of the telson in pleustids is an important, diagnostic character and the lack of the keel clearly excludes all Dautzenbergia species from that family. We here transfer it to Dautzenbergia , based on the following characters: strongly anteriorly directed, pointed coxa 1; the strongly dissimilar, raptorial gnathopods with gnathopod 2 massive; the toothed dactyls of the pereopods; the long, lanceolate, subequal rami of the uropods lacking apical spines and the incised telson lacking a ventral keel. In combination, these are all characteristic of the genus Dautzenbergia and the five species now included in the genus are very distinctive and form a recognizable, morphological group.