Sursumura abyssalis

Taxonavigation

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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: Storthyngurinae
Genus: Sursumura
Species: Sursumura abyssalis

Name

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Sursumura abyssalis (Wolff, 1962)

Holotype: ZMUC CRU-5024 - female
Type-locality: Tasman Sea; 45°51’S 164°32’E. Habitat: marine benthic, 4400 m depth
Paratypes: none?

Combinations

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Descriptions

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  • Wolff, 1962

Distribution

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Tasman Sea (Wolff, 1962).

Habitat

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Deep-sea marine benthic species, found at a depth of 4400 m on Globigerina ooze (Wolff, 1962).

References

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  • Malyutina M.V. (2003). Revision of Storthyngura Vanhöffen, 1914 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) with descriptions of three new genera and four new species from the deep South Atlantic. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 3: 245–252.
  • Wolff T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report 6: 1–320, pl. i-xix.