Nymphodora gen. nov., a new genus of Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Janiroidea) from the high Arctic

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Author: KAISER, STEFANIE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2009
• Subjects: Crustacea; Malacostraca; Nymphodora fletcheri (Paul & George; 1975) comb. nov.; Nannoniscus; Panetela; Canada Basin; deep sea; Arctic; Canada; canada basin
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2096.1.22; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.22

A new isopod genus is described from the Canada Basin, Nymphodora gen. nov. The type species of the genus, Nymphodora fletcheri (Paul & George, 1975) comb. nov., was first described as Desmosomatidae in the genus Mirabilicoxa and then later assigned to Chelibranchus by Kussakin (1999). However, the species bears characters with a greater affinity to Nannoniscidae, such as a bulbous terminal article of antenna 1 and fusions of the pereonites 6, 7 and pleotelson. Here, the species is redescribed and transferred to a new genus in Nannoniscidae.