Subfamily STORTHYNGURINAE Kussakin, 2003

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Regional Maps

• Storthyngurinae Kussakin, O.G. 2003. Marine and brackish-water Crustacea (Isopoda) of cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere. 3. Suborder Asellota 2. Family Munnopsidae. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 171: 1-380 [in Russian] [https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=47261] [273].

Introduction

Storthyngurines have a body with strong dorsal and lateral spines, also with spines on the coxae of pereopods 2–4. They differ from acanthocopines in that the bases of pereopods 4–7 are of similar lengths and the uropod is biramous (Kussakin, 2003; Malyutina, 2003; Malyutina & Brandt, 2004).

Diagnosis

Body with natasome differentiated, with strong dorsal and lateral spines; rostrum absent. Pereonites 5–7 dorsally fused; pleotelson suboval, fused to all natasome segments, with lateral spines. Antennulae dorsal; article 1 wide, much larger than article 2. Pereopods 3, 4 bases elongate, about as long as pereopod 2 basis; pereopods 5–7 natatory, with broad carpi and propodi; dactyli small, less than half as long as propodi, or ambulatory, with cylindrical carpi and propodi. Uropod ventral, biramous, with elongate peduncle and rami.

General References

Kussakin, O.G. 2003. Marine and brackish-water Crustacea (Isopoda) of cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere. 3. Suborder Asellota 2. Family Munnopsidae. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 171: 1-380 [in Russian] [https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=47261]

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 and Evolution 3: 245-252

Malyutina, M.V. & Brandt, A. 2004. Storthyngurinae (Isopoda, Asellota, Munnopsididae) from the Antarctic deep sea with the descriptions of three new species. Beaufortia 54: 1-38

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