Dynoides elegans

Dynoides elegans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sphaeromatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Isopoda Cladus: Scutocoxifera Subordo: Sphaeromatidea Superfamilia: Sphaeromatoidea

Familia: Sphaeromatidae
Genus: Dynoides
Species: Dynoides elegans

Name

Dynoides elegans (Boone, 1923)

Original combination: Clianella elegans Boone, 1923

Holotype: ♂ (7.04 mm), USNM 50421 [RW16.020]

Type locality: California, San Diego County, La Jolla, Scripps Institution for Biological Research, ~32.27°N ~117.61°W, 23 Oct 1915.

Paratypes: 2 ♂ PARATYPES (6.03, 5.36 mm, smaller specimen dissected and figured), same data as holotype, USNM 1422085.

Distribution

• United States
  • California
    • La Jolla (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), San Pedro

References

Primary references

• Wetzer, R. & Mowery, G. 2017. Redescription of Dynoides elegans (Boone, 1923) (Crustacea, Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from the north-eastern Pacific. ZooKeys 646: 1-16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.646.10626. Reference page. 
• Boone P.L., 1923. New marine tanaid and isopod Crustacea from California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 36: 147-156.Reference page. 

Links

• Dynoides elegans in the World Register of Marine Species

• BHL bibliography
• Dynoides elegans – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Dynoides elegans.
• ION
• Species-ID

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