Vanhoeffenura challengeri

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: Vanhoeffenura
Species: Vanhoeffenura challengeri

Name

Vanhoeffenura challengeri (Wolff, 1962)

Holotype: ZMUC CRU-6009 - female
Type-locality: Antarctic, Indian Ocean sector; 60°52’S 80°20’E. Habitat: marine benthic, 2300 m depth
Paratypes: none

Combinations

• Storthyngura challengeri Wolff, 1962
• Vanhoeffenella challengeri, Malyutina, 2003 (Vanhoeffenella: nom. preocc.)
• Vanhoeffenura challengeri, Malyutina, 2004

Descriptions

• Wolff, 1962

Distribution

Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean (Wolff, 1962).

Habitat

Deep-sea marine benthic species, found at depths of 2300 m (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.
• Malyutina, M.V. (2004). Vanhoeffenura nom.nov. replaces Vanhoeffenella Malyutina, 2003 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 4: 123.
• Wolff T. (1962). The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report 6: 1–320, pl. i-xix.