Ilyarachna nordenstami

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Janiroidea

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 Subordo: Asellota Superfamilia: Janiroidea

Familia: Munnopsididae
Subfamilia: Ilyarachninae
Genus: Ilyarachna
Species: Ilyarachna nordenstami

Name

Ilyarachna nordenstami Wolff, 1962

Holotype: ZMUC CRU-7549? - female
Type-locality: South Georgia, off the mouth of Cumberland Bay; 54°11’S 36°18’W. Habitat: marine benthic, 252-310 m depth
Paratypes: male, more?

Descriptions

• Nordenstam, 1933 (as Ilyarachna antarctica)
• Wolff, 1962

Distribution

Subantarctic, South Georgia (Nordenstam, 1933, Wolff, 1962).

Habitat

Marine benthic species, found at a depth of 252-310 m on gray clay with stones (Nordenstam, 1933).

References

• Crustacea collection at ZMUC
• Nordenstam, Å. (1933). Marine Isopoda of the families Serolidae, Idotheidae, Pseudidotheidae, Arcturidae, Parasellidae and Stenetriidae mainly from the South Atlantic. Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901–1903, Further Zoological Results 3 (1): 284 pp., 2 pl.
• Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report 6: 7–320, pl. i-xix.