Deep-Sea taxon details

Ilyarachna affinis Barnard, 1920

255856  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255856)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Asellota (Suborder)
  11. Janiroidea (Superfamily)
  12. Munnopsidae (Family)
  13. Ilyarachninae (Subfamily)
  14. Ilyarachna (Genus)
  15. Ilyarachna affinis (Species)
accepted
Species
Ilyarachna spinoafricana Menzies, 1962 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Barnard, K. H. (1920). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. No. 6.- Further additions to the list of marine Isopoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 17(5): 319-438 Plates XV-XVII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1520873 [details] OpenAccess publication
Note South Africa  
From editor or global species database
type locality South Africa [details]
Depth range 706-1281  
Depth range 706-1281 [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ilyarachna affinis Barnard, 1920. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255856 on 2025-07-28
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Ilyarachna affinis Barnard, 1920. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255856 on 2025-07-28
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
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Schotte, Marilyn

original description Barnard, K. H. (1920). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. No. 6.- Further additions to the list of marine Isopoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 17(5): 319-438 Plates XV-XVII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1520873 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ilyarachna spinoafricana Menzies, 1962) Menzies, R. J. (1962). The isopods of abyssal depths in the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Vema Research Series.</em> 1: 79-206., available online at http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/19789/19789.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype SAMC A4065, geounit South Africa [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 706-1281 [details]

type locality South Africa [details]
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To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ilyarachna spinoafricana Menzies, 1962)
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