Halirages cainae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eusiroidea
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: Amphipoda Subordo: Gammaridea Superfamilia: Eusiroidea

Familia: Calliopiidae
Genus: Halirages
Species: Halirages cainae

Name

Halirages cainae d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2012: 5, figs 1-7

Holotype: ZMBN 87795, ♂, mounted on 26 slides in Euparal.

Type locality: MAREANO 2009-111 cruise, RV G.O. Sars, R-station 487, sample 157, 69°04'N 012°28'E, 2589-2615 m, RP-sledge, mud, 8 Oct. 2009.

Etymology: Caina (Divine Comedy, Canto XXXII, verse 58): first round of the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, which the poet describes as a frozen lake. The name alludes to the deep basin of the Norwegian Sea, which is the habitat of the species. With its negative temperatures, this body of icy abyssal water, trapped under a layer of warmer Atlantic waters is not unlike the frozen lake of Dante's Inferno. The vernacular noun in medieval Italian is Latinized as caina, -ae and is a genitive.

References

Primary references

d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. 2012. On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe. European Journal of Taxonomy 7: 1-32. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.7 . Reference page.