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.