Rectisura furcata

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: Storthyngurinae
Genus: Rectisura
Species: Rectisura furcata

Name

Rectisura furcata (Wolff, 1956)

Holotype: ZMUC CRU-9561 - female
Type-locality: Kermadec Trench, NE of New Zealand; 35°51’S 178°31’W. Habitat: marine benthic, 6660-6770 m depth
Paratypes: ZMUC CRU-6478

Combinations

• Storthyngura furcata Wolff, 1956
• Rectisura furcata, Malyutina, 2003

Descriptions

• Wolff, 1956
• Wolff, 1962

Distribution

Found in the Kermadec Trench (Wolff, 1956, 1962).

Habitat

Deep-sea marine benthic species, found at depths of 5850-6770 m. The substrates were brown sand with clay and stones or brown clay with pumice (Wolff, 1956, 1962).

References

• Crustacea collection at ZMUC
• 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. (1956). Isopoda from depths exceeding 6000 meters. Galathea Report 2: 85–157.
• Wolff, T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report 6: 7–320, pl. i-xix.