Iais elongata is a species of brackish isopod, found on Inaccessible Island.[1]
Iais elongata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Isopoda |
Family: | Janiridae |
Genus: | Iais |
Species: | I. elongata
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Binomial name | |
Iais elongata Sivertsen & Holthuis, 1980
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Description
editIt has a long and narrow body, being around 4 times wider than it is long. It gradually widens from the first to the last pereonite and it is covered in short, widely spaced hair.[2]
References
edit- ^ Schotte, Marilyn (2008). Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD (eds.). "Iais elongata Sivertsen & Holthuis, 1980". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Sivertsen, E.; Holthuis, L. B. (1980). "The marine isopod Crustacea of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago". Gunneria. 35: 1–128.