Katianira

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Subordo: Asellota
Superfamilia: Janiroidea

Familia: Katianiridae
Genus: Katianira
Species: K. acarina – K. bilobata – K. chelifera – K. platyura – K. setifera
Name

Katianira Hansen, 1916

Type species: Katianira chelifera Hansen, 1916

Synonyms

Abyssijaera Menzies, 1962: by Svavarsson, 1987
Janthurella Kussakin, 1982: by Svavarsson, 1987
Chandra George, 2004: by Shimomura et Akiyama, 2006

References

Hansen, H.J. (1916). Crustacea Malacostraca III. Isopoda. Danish Ingolf Expedition 3: 1–262, pl. i-xvi.
Shimomura, M. & T. Akiyama (2006). A new species of the deep-sea isopod genus Katianira Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea: Asellota: Katianiridae) from the Kumano Basin, Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119 (4): 576–585.
Svavarsson, J. (1987). Reevaluation of Katianira in Arctic waters and erection of a new family, Katianiridae (Isopoda: Asellota). Journal of Crustacean Biology 7 (4): 704–720.