Sursumura abyssalis

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: Sursumura
Species: Sursumura abyssalis

Name

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

• Storthyngura abyssalis Wolff, 1962
• Sursumura abyssalis, Malyutina, 2003

Descriptions

• Wolff, 1962

Distribution

Tasman Sea (Wolff, 1962).

Habitat

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

References

• 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.