Storthyngurella benti
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Janiroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Munnopsididae
Subfamilia: Storthyngurinae
Genus: Storthyngurella
Species: Storthyngurella benti
Name
[edit]Storthyngurella benti (Wolff, 1956)
Holotype: ZMUC CRU-5804 - female
Type-locality: Kermadec Trench, NE of New Zealand; 32°10’S 177°14’W. Habitat: marine benthic, 6960-7000 m depth
Paratypes: none?
Combinations
[edit]- Storthyngura benti Wolff, 1956
- Storthyngurella benti, Malyutina, 1999
Descriptions
[edit]- Wolff, 1956
Distribution
[edit]Found in the Kermadec Trench (Wolff, 1956, 1962).
Habitat
[edit]Deep-sea marine benthic species, found at depths of 5230-7000 m. The substrates were brown clay with pumice or brown sand with clay and stones (Wolff, 1956, 1962).
References
[edit]- Crustacea collection at ZMUC
- Malyutina, M.V. (1999). Storthyngurella, new genus of Munnopsidae (Crustacea: Isopoda), with descriptions of three new species from deep-sea basins of the southern hemisphere. Mem Mus Victoria 57: 267–285.
- 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.